She has heard every version of how you met. This Christmas, give it to her as a novel, with her at the center of it and the trip you keep promising her at the end.
Christmas gifts for a wife tend to fall into two piles: things she mentioned once in March, and things that are really for the house. Neither says much about the person you married.
A Novellum book does. Write a few lines about her: what she does all day, how you met, the place she has always wanted to see, the thing she does that makes you laugh. Choose up to two genres (romance and adventure is the classic pairing; a mystery suits the wife who guesses the ending of every film) and we write a whole novel with her as the heroine.
It costs from $2.99, arrives by email on Christmas morning with your message, and you can add a narrated audiobook so she can listen on the drive to her parents. Print the PDF and slip page one into her stocking if you want something to unwrap.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Laura Bennett, 41, an emergency vet in Boulder, Colorado, married twelve years to the man who brought in a stray he swore wasn't his, finally goes to see the northern lights in Tromso, Norway, on a Christmas trip that goes wrong in all the right ways (romance and adventure). The hero is invented.
The taxi slid off the icy roundabout and into the amber spill of streetlights. Laura Bennett pressed her gloved palms to the window as if she could warm the glass and buy the town back its color. Tromso smelled like smoke and salt and something sharp she had no name for. She had imagined this moment a dozen times in the slow hours between night shifts: northern lights unfurling over snow like slow breath, Tom's hand finding hers under a sky that remembered ancient fires. Standing at the edge of the back seat, his duffel at his feet, he smiled with the tired, crooked grin that had made her adopt a scrawny terrier twelve years ago when he swore the dog was only passing through his life. He had not been passing through then and he was not passing through now.
"Hotel is only a ten minute walk from the harbor," Tom said, unfolding the small paper map with fingers reddened by the cold. He had already swapped his heavy coat for a thinner one even though it did not seem to help. "We can drop the bags and catch the eight thirty train to the aurora camp."
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, so it is there when she checks her phone.
No. Pick any two genres. Many husbands choose a mystery or an adventure and let the love story run underneath.
As personal as your brief, up to 2,000 characters. Inside jokes, pet names and the restaurant where you got engaged all work. Leave out anything you would not want read aloud at her parents' table.
You get an EPUB and a PDF. Print the PDF, or just the first page, at a print shop and wrap it, with the email arriving the same morning.
Most books are written in about two hours, so you can order on the 24th and still schedule it for the 25th.
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.