Year of the Bad Dog

by Alex F. Vance on 14. Feb, 2007 in BDB


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2007:

The Year of the Bad Dog.
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(this message is also available as an audio podcast at Baddogbooks​.com!)

When things go quiet at Bad Dog Books, it can mean three things.

One: we’re having a party and you’re not invited. This doesn’t happen nearly as often as we’d like it to. Alas!

Two: we’re working very hard on something. This happens all the time. We wish we could have more parties, but between schmoozing, editing, wheeling and dealing we just don’t have a whole lot of time to spend just drinking. Usually we end up drinking while working.

But there’s a third option, too. That’s when we’re working very, very hard on things, so hard, in fact, that often we can’t even drink. Can you imagine?

You don’t have to. This is that eventuality. And we of Bad Dog Books, the hardworking yet comically underpaid Ben Goodridge and the money-​​grubbing, egomaniacal and always humble Alex Vance, are proud to reveal to you all the sweet, golden-​​hued fruits of our labours.

 

Read on!

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FANG For Sale!

After months of negotiating and wrangling, we can finally announce that FANG will be available from FurNation, starting in late February. This will be the pocket edition of FANG, compact and sleek as it always was intended to be — and thanks to FurNation’s cutting-​​edge equipment, we’ll be able to change the price of the FANG books back to their original level.
In order to facilitate resale and ensure FANG’s financial future, FANG Volume 1 was rereleased in pocket format at a staggering $29.99. While we at Bad Dog Books were more than a little surprised at the complete absence of complaint (one avid reader gave us the heartwarming confirmation that “It’s worth paying for”) we still felt it was too much to lay down for a book — even one of this quality.
We are proud to announce that the FANG line henceforth will be sold for $19.99 per copy!

FANG Presents: Everybody Loves Luther

Everybody Loves Luther Cover Alex has made no secret of the fact that “Bitch-​​Boy” by Badger was his favorite story in FANG Volume 1. In fact, he actually contacted the author for permission to use the story in the volume. This is contrary to FANG’s basic principles, but, well, Alex was the editor. The boss, applesauce. He could do what he damn well pleased.

Aaanyway, Badger, also known as André Blaireau, had a few tricks up his sleeve, it turned out. Having long sleeves, Mr Blaireau’s tricks were far too big to fit in any volume of FANG… So why kick other talented authors off scarce FANG pages when BDB was already gearing up to launch a line of novels by selected FANG authors?

Bad Dog Books is proud to present Everybody Loves Luther, the story of Adrian Drew, professor at Whiskey University and the young Dalmatian Luther Coachman who breaks him out of his mourning for his decesased lover. Throw in a frisky young couple, the tough queer Jesse Krolik and his easygoing partner Chip Rockwell and the various dramas life can throw at young and old alike… and Everybody Loves Luther is a worthy opening to the FANG Presents line of novels.

Gorgeous cover art provided by the spectacular painting talent of Grimal. Full-​​sized verison available at the Gallery at baddogbooks​.com. Everybody Love Luther is available for $19.99.

Furry Weekend Atlanta

Yes, Further Confusion is just around the corner, but it’s FWA where you’ll find FANG on the table. FurNation will be stocking a lot of sleek black covers on their table. FANG Volume 1, 2 and Everybody Loves Luther (all for the marvellously affordable $19.99) will be available in decent quantities, so hopefully it won’t sell out as it’s done at previous cons.

Of course, I say ‘hopefully’…

If you’re planning to attend, and you’re considering picking up a copy, do hop by the FurNation table early and beat the crowd, eh?

That said, if you’re going to FWA, we’d love to hear it!

FANG Volume 5

Okay, the poor, hardworking writers among you have been reading all this promotional claptrap, wondering when we’d get to the really important stuff. Who cares about books that they can’t write stories for? Who cares if anyone buys them or not? Think about the future, dude.

For those selfish individuals, here’s the good news. The future is now, and it’s called FANG Volume 5 .

Originally FANG’s volumes centered around a particular genre. Partly this was a sneaky trick to ensure sufficient submissions. Alex thought it’d be best to choose a nice broad catch-​​all; surely some writers would have a story or two lying around that fit the bill.

Of course, that didn’t turn out to be at all necessary. Not in the bloody slightest.

Ben, who has a pair of cojones the size of melons, has braved Alex’s ego, which is the size of a small planet, and smashed preconceptions to go with something new. It’s time to take risks with FANG and it’s time to make authors work harder (lazy buggers that they are).

FANG Volume 5 will not have a genre. It will have a theme. You got it? A theme.

And Volume 5’s theme will be:

Games.

That’s it. Take it as far as you want or as close to the mark as you can. If you’ve written for FANG before you know that we value good writing even more than we value our own rules. Go nuts. Fly with it.

Just remember that your writing has to be really insanely good to convince us to overlook Obvious Oversights. That’s why we’ve set up a new Advice section on www​.baddogbooks​.com. Read it, and stack your chances at making the grade.

Submissions will be accepted from February 1 to April 1. As always, submission instructions are available on the BDB website .

You’d better get cracking.

Final words

Was that enough to make up for the silent treatment for the last few months? We at Bad Dog Books sort of believe it is. As always, we’re available for questions, comments, or anonymous donations of large sums of money at baddogbooks@​gmail.​com.

We’ve been working hard to make stuff happen and it brings us no end of joy to finally be able to reveal it.

FANG goes on sale through FurPlanet, and at Furry Weekend Atlanta. The first FANG Presents novel is coming out with a gorgeous painting by Grimal on the cover. FANG Volume 5 will be accepting new submissions with the theme ‘games’ from February 1 to April 1.

With kind regards from Alex Vance, head pot-​​scrubber of BDB, and Ben Goodridge, managing editor of FANG,

Bad Dog Books

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(Now go and write a story or buy our damn books)

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  • stormcatcher_

    Alex, a hearty congratulations to you on negotiating this deal with the FurNation folks--and a huge round of kudos goes to them for being able to nail down the lower price for the distribution. Wider distribution + lower price hopefully = more happy readers, yes?


    A huge thanks also to Ben, whose hard work and keen editorial observations are muchly appreciated. Keep up the great work, fellas!

  • I snatched a copy of FANG 1 at the very end of MFF when I saw the SofaWolf dealers had put a copy out on display. I had been following up on the publication for a while, and was surprised to find that they had sold only one or two copies.


    So, congratulations with the publishing deal! It's exciting to expect a showing by FANG at AC this year! Last year, my "must-get" item was the Kennel Club card deck, but, contingencies-pending, FANG will be that "must-get" item at this year's AC!

  • Pack some extra cash, brother. If all goes well, there will be a veritable swath of sleek black covers on FurNation's tables at AC... :)

  • I was disapointed when I found out that not a single copy of FANG #1 was availible at either the last AC or the more recent FC. It'd probably help sell them if we had them availible for folks to see and then buy, y'know?


    re: Furnation... Ewwww. Have they started to ship things that people order and pay for or are they still too interested in dumping cash into SecondLife to be bothered?

  • If you have a problem with your order, I'd be happy to help you. E-mail either myself or Rackett with the order # and we'll see what the problem is.


    As far as Second Life goes, its a been a break-even investment for us. What we've actually been "dumping cash" into recently has been a ton of new production equipment, which is how we're now able to produce novels like Fang and also full colour comics and a lot more.

  • We'll be shipping that next week... really.


    Thank you for your courtesy, but it's been close to two years now and I've chased my tail in regards to the order quite enough.

    I have no idea what the PO# was at this point.


    I let it go and marked it as a lesson learned a long time ago.


    The problem I had was being told everything from: That'll be going out next week because the printer has delayed the order, to we'll be shipping those tomorrow, to that should be in the mail and getting to you any time now, to finally, Order? What order? Why do you keep emailing us?


    Best of luck to you all in your future endevours.

  • Red: be nice, now! I wouldn't have entered into this arrangement if I didn't have faith in our new friends, would I? If you're uncomfortable with FurNation's online practices, you can still get the books through BDB's webstore -- and thanks to FN, FANG *will* be available at AC in rather substantial quantities. Win-win, huh?

  • Huh?


    I was, and will remain nice.


    That doesn't mean I can't say that I got screwed does it?


    I sincerely hope that FN has their ducks in a row on this one because I always had the highest regard for them because they were one of the first instances of the fandom that I ran across *waaaay* back in the 90's and first discovered that there was more to online services than local BBSes and AOL.


    They have, I think, still more than enough momentum to do anything that they set their minds to ( hence owning several $1000+ sims ), but to be honest I will be buying my copies through Bad Dog.


    I'm glad to see that they finally updated the Furnation front page, though the fact that it just goes to a piece of Forumware now doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.


    Sorry for not being all 'clappy and bouncy'.

    Hope that it's a profitable long term arrangement for you, Mr. Goodridge, and the Furnation folks.

  • Re: Huh?


    Thanks, Swampy! FANG and all BDB's products will continue to be available through the BDB webstore for direct purchases, so no worries there.


    Incidentally... can we expect any fresh prose from your fuzzy self for the next issue?


    I've got a fairly strict deal with Ben -- since he's the chief noggin for FANG from here on out, I have set myself a policy of not reading any submissions until *after* he's made his selection, so as to avoid favoritism and to give him the control he needs to put his volumes together... but it's been too long since I've seen your pennings!

  • FANG Submission


    Nope.

    Not from me.


    Only reason I was interested was because you had a hand in story selection and so I knew it would be a challenge to make it, but it'd be a god, fair fight.


    I'm sure Mr. G is an awesome fellow, but I don't know him from Adam and am in no way interested in having someone eviscerate my work just for fun.


    You wanna see more of my stuff then you should go by my webpage @ www.swampwulf.com and click on the 'Red's writing' section, or better yet *GET FURRAG UPDATED!*


    *lapses back into a post Velentines chocolate stupor*

  • How exciting! Best of luck with all the projects. I know I encourage people to buy and contribute! Any news on when FANG 3 and 4 will be out?

  • Kyell, your support is like unto a balm on my heart. It's too early to tell for certain, but let me say this:


    AC is going to be a big deal for FANG, this year :)

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