Jewelry says you went to the mall. A novel built from the things she loves, the place she works and the way you met says you have been listening.
Most Christmas gift lists for girlfriends are the same twenty products in a different order: candles, perfume, a necklace. They are fine. They are also exactly what everyone else gives.
A Novellum book is built from her. Write a few lines: what she does all day, where she goes to feel like herself, how you met, the adventure she keeps talking about. Pick up to two genres (adventure and romance is the classic pairing; a mystery suits the woman who reads the last page first) and we write a whole novel with her as the heroine.
It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on Christmas morning with your message. Add the narrated audiobook so she can listen on a walk, or print the PDF and wrap it.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Priya Kallur, 27, a park ranger in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina, who knows every trail and still stops for every sunrise, heads up the mountain two days before Christmas to find a hiker lost in an early snowstorm, with Ben, the photographer she has been pretending not to like all fall (adventure and romance). The hero is invented.
Priya Kallur tightened the straps on her pack and checked their small stove one more time because habit had taught her that stove controls mattered more than weather reports. The world above Ridgecrest Trail had already been cut clean by winter light; birch trunks stood like chalk against a sky the color of old pewter and every footfall sent a fine powder from last night’s surprise snow into the air. She paused at the crest where the ridge opened and watched the sun thread itself between two pines. The first light turned the valley to milk and smoke and Priya let herself stay in that soft ache of watching. A sunrise was an answer to something she could not put words to. It made the rest of the day possible.
When Ben arrived he came in with the kind of smile that always showed him to be more comfortable behind a lens than in front of conversation. His camera bag hung low on his hip and his breath steamed in quick ribbons. He had been trying to charm her all autumn with offhand compliments about her trail markers and her boots. Priya had been practicing indifference. Now she handed him a thermos and he accepted it like a peace offering and did not reach for her hand though his fingers brushed hers.
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.
Yes. Choose December 25 at checkout. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC, 8 a.m. on the East Coast and 5 a.m. in the West.
If you like. Many people write themselves in as the love interest or the sidekick. You can also leave yourself out and make the whole book about her.
Add the narrated audiobook for $5 more. Four narrator voices are available and she can listen on any phone.
As personal as your brief, up to 2,000 characters. Pet names, the coffee shop where you met and the trip you are planning all work.
You get an EPUB and a PDF. Print the PDF, or just page one, and wrap it, with the email arriving the same morning.
Yes. It 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.