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A picture of Alex Osfer Vance, by Jotun
Alex Vance, aka Osfer, is a furry author, founder of the Bad Dog Books anthropomorphic publishing house and the furry fiction archive FurRag.

Alex has been in the furry fandom since early 1999, originally active in the FurNation talker until its closure, then transitioning to the Yiffnet channel to which most of the original FurNation talker population had moved.

Later he began to frequent Tapestries MUCK where he would develop several characters which later found their way into the very long and as yet unfinished serial Maranatha.

Bad Dog Books and FurRag

In 2005, his frustration at the death of furry fiction periodicals of significance led him to found a publishing operation and its flagship product, the periodical erotic furry fiction anthology FANG, and later that year, with the aid of a friend, set up a furry fiction archive intended as a more general-purpose counterpart to Yiffstar. Yiffstar's admin Toumal provided some coding assistance.

RSI

In early 2006, he began suffering from repetitive strain injury, causing him pain in his fingers which required him to substantially moderate his typing. He announced his intention to put FANG on indefinite hiatus in order to let his fingers heal. With the help of Ben Goodridge, he founded Bad Dog Books in July 2006 and resumed development of FANG, which also made its publishing services available to third-party authors interested in bringing their works to print.

Bibliography

Until the deterioration of his fingers, Alex was an avid writer. Between 2004 and 2005, he wrote nineteen chapters of a serial story called Maranatha, totalling nearly two hundred thousand words. Besides occasionally contributing stories of his own to FANG, his fiction has appeared in FurNation Magazine issue 9 and Heat volume 4 from Sofawolf Press.

Heathen City

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Promotional poster for Heathen City
Alex is currently working on an upcoming graphic novel by the name of Heathen City, with art by Ayato and colored by Distasty. Promotion for the upcoming release began in early October, when FurNation and FurPlanet showed their support by posting the promotional posters on their front pages, causing the hit counter on the Heathen City a 2000 hit spike in 48 hour.

A promotional campaign including on-line advertisements on Google Adsense, ProjectWonderful and the ad rotation on the Keenspot comics website is currently underway.

The first volume of this graphic novel will be available in early 2008.

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