Everyone at the engagement party will ask how they met. Give the couple a novel that tells it, with both of them as the heroes and the proposal as the happy ending.
Engagement gifts are awkward. The registry is not open yet, the wedding is months away, and a bottle of champagne is gone by the weekend.
A Novellum book is a keepsake from the first chapter of their marriage. Tell us how they met, what each of them does, the places that matter to them and how the proposal happened. Choose up to two genres (romance and comedy suit most couples; adventure suits the ones who met on a trip) and we write a whole novel with the two of them at the center.
It costs from $2.99, arrives by email on the day of the party with your message, and makes a natural pair with a wedding gift later: the engagement book is how it started, the wedding is the sequel.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Priya Shah, 29, a software tester in Seattle, and Daniel Moore, 31, a sound engineer, just got engaged after meeting at a karaoke night where both sang the same song badly at the same time, and now face a chaotic weekend planning the engagement party with two very different families (romance and comedy). The hero is invented.
On the morning after the proposal the Seattle sky could not decide whether it wanted to drizzle or sun, and Priya Shah found that her brain could not stop replaying two things in perfect loop: Daniel's off-key high note and the small, urgent way he had said her name right before he crouched to ask the question. She was sitting on her couch with a mug of tea gone lukewarm, one shoe on, the other in her lap because she could not find it, and a string of fairy lights still tangled around the armrest felt like a physical echo of the string of images in her head. Her phone buzzed. It was her mother already, a text full of exclamation points and a single winking face. Priya smiled and typed back with one thumb because she was a tester and efficiency lived in her bones. She wrote: We are doing cake taste test on Sunday. Come prepared.
The doorbell rang. Priya opened it to Daniel standing in the hallway with a guitar case in one hand and a grocery bag in the other. He was wearing a sweater carrying the faint smell of rain and coffee and the song they had both sung badly together the night before. When he smiled he looked like someone who had slept badly and loved anyway. He handed her a potted succulent and said, I brought you something that will not demand to be walked at two in the morning. Priya laughed out loud and hugged him, and for a moment they both forgot the calendar they had filled yesterday with venues and guest lists and the myriad logistical trivia that comes after a yes.
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. Name one as the hero in the form and describe both of them in the brief. Most couple books follow the two of them equally.
Yes. Page one makes a good toast. You read it free before you pay, so you know what you are reading out.
Yes. Once a book is delivered you can order a sequel with the same characters, which suits a wedding or a first anniversary.
One email address gets the card and the book. Pick whichever of the two checks email.
How they met, the proposal, their jobs, places and in-jokes, up to 2,000 characters. Ask a close friend if you are missing details.
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.