You have read hundreds of heroes. Here is a book where the hero has your name, your job, your city and your habits, in the kind of story you actually like to read.
Most personalized books are picture books for children with a name dropped into a fixed story. A Novellum book is different: a whole novel for adults, written after you order, built from what you tell us about yourself.
You choose up to two genres (thriller and adventure, romance and comedy, sci-fi and mystery) and describe your world: what you do all day, where you live, the people you would want in the story and the kind of trouble you would secretly enjoy. Then you read page one free. If you like it, we write the rest, usually in about two hours.
It costs from $2.99 for a Short novel of about 30,000 words to $6.99 for a Full novel of about 95,000. You get an EPUB and a PDF, and you can add an audiobook narrated in one of four voices. It is a treat for yourself, or a very good joke at a book club.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Jordan Ellis, a 38-year-old air traffic controller in Denver who does crosswords in pen and has never been late, is asked by name for permission to land by a private jet that is on no flight plan (thriller and adventure). The hero is invented.
Jordan Ellis finished the last square of the crossword with a fountain pen that had a chip in its gold nib. He set the pen across the grid, lined up the letters with the tip of his forefinger, and tapped the paper twice as if to confirm the answer to a riddle only he had been asking for thirty-eight years. Outside the control tower, Denver was a pocket of dark under a shallow spread of clouds. The radar screen hummed faintly; most of the city slept. He had never been late for a shift in his life. Never once. Routine was a ledger he kept with exacting handwriting and no margins.
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.
It is built from your brief: your name, your places, your details. Everything else is invented, so you get a real story rather than a biography.
Yes. Name them in the brief. Only include people who would be happy to appear in a story.
Yes. Page one is free, with no account and no card. Change the brief and try again if it is not right.
Fantasy, romance, mystery, sci-fi, adventure, thriller, historical, horror, comedy and fairy tale, up to two at once.
Yes. Once it is delivered you can order the next book in the series, with the same hero and what the first book established.
Yes. Every Novellum book is written by AI for one reader, and says so on its final page.
Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.