He says he does not need anything, and the watch drawer is full. For your anniversary, give him a novel where he is the hero and your story together is the heart of it.
Anniversary gifts for men tend to fall into a few categories: something to wear, something to drink, something for the grill. They are fine. They are also easy to forget by the next anniversary.
A Novellum book is built from the two of you. Tell us how you met, what he does, the hobby he will talk about for an hour, the trip you took the year you got engaged. Pick up to two genres (adventure and romance, a thriller with a love story underneath, a comedy about the time everything went wrong) and we write a novel with him as the hero.
It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on your anniversary with your message. For a paper anniversary, print the PDF. For the man who listens rather than reads, add the narrated audiobook.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Sam Whitaker, a sailing instructor in Annapolis, Maryland, met his wife Elena ten years ago when she capsized a dinghy on her first lesson; for their tenth anniversary they sail his old boat to the island where he proposed, and a storm has other plans (adventure and romance). The hero is invented.
The sky over Annapolis was the color of pewter coins, the kind sailors learned to read by the way light fell on their faces. Sam Whitaker stood on the weathered dock with his palms on the rail of his old sloop and watched the water fret itself into whitecaps. He had taught hundreds of students how to coax a boat through caprice and gust, but the boat under his hands tonight felt like a familiar friend and an old argument both. He ran his thumb along the varnished rim of the wheel and heard Elena before he saw her, the sound of her laughing at some small mischief.
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.
Choose adventure or thriller as one genre and it reads like a page-turner with a love story inside, not a greeting card.
Yes. Tick "This is a gift", choose the date and add your message. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC, morning in the US.
Yes. The first anniversary is traditionally paper, and a printed copy of the PDF fits the tradition.
Yes. Most anniversary books feature both of you. Say whose side the story is told from.
Your card by email with links to his book as an EPUB and a PDF, and the audiobook if you add it.
Yes. It is written by AI for one reader, and it says so on the final page.
Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.