Novelist · Screenwriter · Veterinarian
“The novel is an endless, free territory with no borders.”
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Book One of the Beyond the Apocalypse trilogy
The Portal between worlds is cracking. Hiro was trained since boyhood to guard it. Now his father has vanished on Mount Vitosha, the dead are walking the streets of Sofia, and a tycoon is preparing an ancient Ritual under a blood-red eclipse.
The trilogy
Zombies on Mount Vitosha. A demon horseman in the storm. A secret Order guarding the door to hell. A dark-fantasy saga set in a Bulgaria no guidebook shows you.
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Every labyrinth has its Minotaur.
For sixty years a secret colony has lived on Mars, ruled by a dictator who burns anyone who stands in his way. Seventeen-year-old Theseus hides in the tunnels beneath the surface, until Ariadne offers him a thread through the labyrinth.
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Book trailer for Keeper of the Portal, coming soon
About
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1975, Yan still lives in Dragalevtsi, where the city ends and Mount Vitosha begins. He has been writing since school, and wrote his debut novel, Suicides, entirely by hand.
By day he is a practicing veterinarian; he insists writing fits with any profession. He loves the mysticism and magic woven into human nature, and also writes screenplays for film.
“Yan Van Sale” is the pen name his friends gave him. In Bulgaria his thirteen novels are published as Yavor Vesselinov.
Read in Bulgarian → yavorvesselinov.com