Usually about two hours from the moment you pay. We don't run a countdown clock and we don't pay compensation for delays, but if we miss 24 hours you can cancel for a full refund. See our terms.
It is. Up to 20 free previews a day, no card, no account. You read page one first and only pay if you want the rest.
EPUB for your e-reader or phone, and PDF for everything else. Both arrive by email as private download links that stay live for at least 90 days.
Name yourself, or anyone who is happy to star in the story as a gift. We turn down briefs that target a real, living person without their say-so. See clause 3 of our terms.
Your book is licensed to you to read, and to gift once. Publishing, adaptation and every other commercial right stay with Novellum. The full wording is in clause 10.
Tell us within 14 days. If it materially misses your brief we'll write it again at no charge, or refund you in full. Taste on its own isn't a fault, but we would far rather rewrite than argue.
Yes. Every book is written with AI assistance under human oversight, and every book says so on its final page, in line with the EU AI Act's transparency rules. We won't ever pretend otherwise.
$13.99 for three Medium books. Yours starts straight away, and you keep two codes to redeem whenever you like, for yourself or for someone else, with nothing more to pay.
Yes. Tick This is a gift before you pay, add their name and email, your name, a message and the day it should arrive. We write it straight away, hold it, and email it to them on the day with your message. How gifting works.
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Yes, on Short books for now. Choose Written words + Audiobook on the shop page for $7.99, or add it afterwards from your delivery email or order page for $5.00. It arrives about half an hour after the written book, as an M4B with chapters and a single MP3, and you pick which of four narrator voices reads it.
The narration is synthetic, one voice throughout, and you choose which of four voices reads it. We will not pretend otherwise, and the audiobook says so at the end.
These are launch prices while we find out how many readers want an audiobook at all. They will go up later; anything you have already bought is unaffected.
No, and it is fairer to say so plainly: running the same words through the same voice returns the same recording, so there is nothing to regenerate. If you are unhappy with an audiobook, write to support@novellumbooks.com within 14 days and we will refund it.
Your EPUB can also be read aloud free by your phone's own reader, in Apple Books or Google Play Books, whether or not you buy the audiobook.
A short, practical book about a situation you are in, most often at work: a difficult colleague, a manager who will not listen, a habit you cannot shift. You describe the situation in your own words and the book is written for you from published guidance and research, with the sources listed at the back. It is Short only, about 18,000 words, and it can be read to you as an audiobook. It is not medical, legal, financial or psychological advice, and it says so on page one. Every brief is screened first; if it is something a book should not attempt, we say so before you pay, and if we have to decline after payment we refund in full.
Yes. Nobody at Novellum reads it, it is never used in marketing, and it is deleted after 90 days like every brief. The people you name are described in the book as you described them, and only you receive it.
You could ask a chat window for a story, and for one scene it would do well. What you get here is different in four ways: about 30,000 words that keep their own facts straight to the last chapter, a finished EPUB and PDF rather than a chat log, roughly two hours of your evening that you keep, and, if you want it, three and a half hours of narrated audio. At $2.99 the saving from doing it yourself is not worth the afternoon.