Two BDB titles on Amazon.com for cheap!

Sci-fi novel White Crusade and sci-fi anthology ROAR Volume 1 are available for pre-order on Amazon.com at a substantial discount: $13.57 instead of the normal $19.99.

There's no indication how long Amazon.com will maintain this discount, so hurry!

Baddogbooks.com is back online.

We at Bad Dog Books do not take shit from Russian hackers. The site is back online.

BDB.com hacked.

Do not visit baddogbooks.com at present; our hosting provider has been hacked and baddogbooks.com yields a blank page which in actuality hosts an iframe which links to the potentially malicious site good-traffic.hk.

If you have visited baddogbooks.com and saw the blank page, please take precautions: install a recent malware and virus scanner, if only the shareware version, and check that your system is secure.

At this point, there isn't any evidence that the site is dangerous, but you can never be too careful.

I've tried everything I can do at my end -- FTP still works and I still have access to the baddogbooks.com cpanel, but no folders can be accessed (even though I can see they exist when I use FTP) and the main page redirects to that good-traffic place.

Be careful, and I'll let you know when all's been restored!

- Alex Vance

Ben Goodridge at Anthrocon

Ladies and gentlemen,

• Some astute readers noted a sneaky little code error that had crept into the product 'carrousel' on the webpag, which mysleep-deprived eyes had missed. Fixed!
• Other equally astute readers noted that the 'mystery editor' I announced could already be found on the new website. D'oh! The newest addition to the BDB team is the highly regarded (though not, perhaps, reputable) Cinnamon DeWolf, author of a great many pieces of furry erotica. We dragged him out of retirement and lashed him to FANG -- more about and from him soon!
• FurNation informed me that El Burrito de los Muertos, the sequel to Everybody Loves Luther, will not be available on their table at Anthrocon. There's only so much they can fit in their truck. Still, André Blaireau, author of both these novels, will be at AC!
• Also at AC, and most importantly, is Ben Goodridge. Ben will present the Bad Dog Boot Camp, scheduled for Saturday at 4PM. He'll be providing some keen insights into the editorial process and gives advice on how best to impress an editor. He'll also, of course, be plugging his new novel, 'White Crusade' and I honestly can't blame him. It's fantastic. Do drop by!

All right, that's it for now. More about the novels and the Free Press Program to follow soon!

- Alex Vance
Editor-in-chief of Bad Dog Books

FANG 3 and 4, three new novels, site update, AC

Folks, it always goes the same way.
You plan months in advance, really take your time to prepare and make sure everything's perfect. You keep quiet about it so you can surprise people with it.
Then, a few weeks before the deadline, something happens, or you discover something, that means that all your work is for nothing and you have to do it all over again. Whether this be book formatting, editing, webdesign, writing -- any and all.
Then, a week before the deadline, just as it seems as if you'll make it, it happens again. Start over.
Le sigh.
But we at BDB are indomitable. We knew that Anthrocon would be a big thing for us, and despite everything the Fates have thrown our way, we're actually ready for it. (This mail will only be a quick sum-up; I'll properly give a blow-by-blow when I've had some sleep. According to my calendar, I'll have time for that in about three years.)

• FANG Volume 3 is being published. FI-NAL-LY. It's taken a long time, but it's been worth it.
• FANG Volume 4 is also being published -- but it's changing its name, and will be published as ROAR Volume 1. Yeah, I know it's weird, but you'll understand when I get around to explaining it better!
• The Hero: a gay fantasy novel by Teiran Dragon, who also the popular High School Days series.
• El Burrito de los Muertos: gay erotica novel by Anré Blaireau, sequel to Everybody Loves Luther.
• White Crusade: Ben Goodridge manags to juggle his editorial duties at BDB with a healthy writing career of his own. I fought him tooth and nail for the rights to his debut novel, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi White Crusade. He objected because publishing it through BDB would make it look like he was self-publishing. I told him to hand over the damn book or he'd be out of a job.
• Website's been updated. I know people say that the baddogbooks.com website is revamped more often than it's actually updated, but you know what? I'm kind of proud of that. Behold: the majesty that is www.baddogbooks.com. Go look.
• Free Press Program. I babbled about this in the March podcast, and right after Anthrocon, it'll finally be ready for prime-time.
• All the books mentioned above are now available in Trade Paperback format, by popular demand, through BDB directly, and all will be available on the FurNation table in the dealer's room at Anthrocon this weekend while supplies last, so be quick! The usual $19.95, and worth every penny.
• All three authors of the BDB novels -- Teiran, André Blaireau and Ben Goodridge -- are going to be at Anthrocon, and may give book signings, so ask at the FurNation table when you can find them there, and keep a look-out! Writers love nothing more than to hear from the people who enjoyed their work.

Well, what do you know. Got it all done before Anthrocon. Only a day or two before, but still long enough to actually tell people about it. I'd like to thank Ben Goodridge, the good folks at FurNation, the new Mystery Editor that I'll tell you about soon, and of course you lot. Writers, readers, you know what I mean. Thank you for making BDB necessary, and helping us strive to make it something amazing.
More to come soon!
- Alex Vance
Editor-in-chief of Bad Dog Books

BDB Podcast for February 2007

Recapping much of the info from the last blog post, the first episode of the new BDB Podcast (RSS subscription available at www.baddogbooks.com, or find it on iTunes by searching for "BDB") also contains the first two of four readings of "The Walking Mountain" by Ben Goodridge, a brand spanking new story set in a more supernatural version of 1899 London, added to the new pocket edition of FANG Volume 2.

Enjoy!

2007: The Year of the Bad Dog

2007: The Year of the Bad Dog.

(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.

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

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 14 to April 14. 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 14 to April 14.

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

Bad Dog Books

www.baddogbooks.com

baddogbooks@gmail.com

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