I’m Vetlan, a nonbinary writer, artist and worldbuilder living in Portugal. I make stories about haunted lives, strange families and people trying to survive impossible change.This is where I hoard the projects I’m delusional enough to believe will become something.

CURRENTLY
completing the first draft of covenline: winter weeps
thinking about aesthetics for anacene
procrastinating by making spreadsheets

COVENLINE: WINTER WEEPSWhen paranormal investigator Gabriela Vespera is forcibly transformed into a vampire, she and her closest friends are drawn into the ancient family that has been waiting for her.NOVEL SERIES · IN DEVELOPMENT
(book 1 - first draft stage)

ANACENE 1C1Twenty-four people receive an invitation to a mysterious group chat in a hopeful world quietly running out of memory. Their relationships may determine whether reality survives what comes next.NARRATIVE GAME · IN DEVELOPMENT
(concept stage)

Hello! I’m Vetlan.I’m a nonbinary writer, artist and worldbuilder based in Portugal, working primarily in English and Portuguese. I write about intimate relationships, surviving impossible change, chosen family and the ordinary lives people continue living around the supernatural.I’m currently completing COVENLINE: Winter Weeps, a contemporary Portuguese gothic fantasy about paranormal investigators, vampirism and the family waiting on the other side of transformation. I’m also developing ANACENE 1C1, a relationship-driven narrative game set in a hopeful world quietly running out of memory.When I’m not writing, I’m usually drawing characters, making games, building unnecessarily elaborate spreadsheets or inventing another project to place gently on top of all my existing projects.Somehow, everything I make becomes about people finding one another while reality collapses around them. I’m sure this means nothing.

NAME
vetlan valentine
PRONOUNS
they/them · ili/dili
BASED IN
portugal
LANGUAGES
english · portuguese

A little more serious..

I’m a writer and artist based in Portugal working under the creative name Vetlan Valentine. Working primarily in English and Portuguese, my fiction centres on intimate relationships, surviving change, chosen family and the everyday life surrounding the supernatural. I’m currently completing COVENLINE: Winter Weeps, a contemporary gothic fantasy set in Portugal, and developing the narrative game ANACENE 1C1.

FOLLOW THE FOOLFor characters, project updates, artwork, writing progress and whatever new thing I've come up with this week, you can find me across the internet as:@VETLANVALENTINE

I post in English and Portuguese, depending on the project, the platform and which language reaches my brain first.FOR LONGER MISSIVESFor professional enquiries, collaborations or messages that need more room to breathe, you can reach me at:[email protected]