Flowers fade and jewelry needs a guess about taste. A novel written about her, and about the two of you, is built from things you already know.
Anniversary gifts for a wife or girlfriend tend to fall into two camps: the safe (flowers, dinner, something from a jewelry counter) and the sentimental (a photo book, a letter). The sentimental ones are remembered. They are also the ones that take a weekend to make.
A Novellum book is sentimental without the weekend. You tell us how you met, where you have been, the small things she would recognize, and pick up to two genres she loves. Romance is the obvious one, but a romance with a thread of fantasy or mystery often makes a better story. We write a whole novel with her as the heroine, and you read page one free before you pay.
It arrives on your anniversary with your message on the card. If you want to hand it over in person, have it sent to yourself instead and print the PDF, or read the first page to her aloud.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Lauren, who met her husband in a Seattle bookstore ten years ago, finds the long-closed shop open again on their anniversary (romance and fantasy). The hero is invented.
The rain had the polite persistence of an old friend that morning. Lauren tucked her scarf tighter and counted the puddles by memory as if each one marked a year: ten. She could still feel the scrape of the shop's bell beneath her palm, the boyish grin of the man who had lifted a cracked copy of The Secret Garden from the lowest shelf and offered it to her with both hands. That man had become Marcus. That tiny secondhand bookstore on Pine and Twelfth had closed three years after they married. City plans, they said. Rising rents. A final sale box left on the curb the week she and Marcus carried their own boxes past the empty window and decided on brunch instead of arguments.
A real opening Novellum wrote for an example brief, quoted unedited. Your book starts from your brief, and you read its page one free before you pay.
| Short novel, about 30,000 words | $2.99 |
| Short novel with its narrated audiobook | $7.99 |
| Medium novel, about 60,000 words | $4.99 |
| Full novel, about 95,000 words | $6.99 |
| Bundle: three Medium books, one now and two codes to give later | $13.99 |
Prices in US dollars, the same everywhere. You pay only after you have read page one.
How you met, one or two places that matter, something she loves, and what you would like to happen. A few true details go a long way; the example above used a bookstore, a city and a decade.
Yes, as a gift she will be glad of. We turn down briefs that target a real person without their say-so, which a present from her partner is not.
The Short novel is about 30,000 words, $2.99. With its narrated audiobook it is $7.99, and you pick one of four synthetic voices.
Read page one free and decide. It costs nothing, needs no account and no card, and shows you the voice and the opening of her book.
Yes. It is written by AI for her alone and says so on its final page.
Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.