The leaving card goes round, the collection goes round, and everyone wonders what to buy. Turn the stories the team tells about them into a novel where they are the hero.
Leaving presents are hard because they have to come from everybody. The safe choices (a bottle, a voucher, a plant for the new desk) are fine, but they say little about the person or the years they spent with you. The best part of any leaving do is the speech, where the stories come out.
A Novellum book keeps those stories. One person collects a few memories from the team: the coffee machine that never worked, the client who wanted it more purple, the fire drill in the rain, where they are off to next. Write them into the brief with your colleague's name, pick up to two genres (comedy and adventure suit a send-off), and we write a whole novel with them as the hero.
From $2.99, it leaves most of the collection for the cake. It arrives by email on their last day with the team's message, or on their first morning in the new job. Print the PDF and the whole office can sign the title page.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Raj Mehta leaves a Manchester design agency after nine years for Auckland, and the team has hidden his leaving present somewhere in the building (comedy and adventure). The hero is invented.
Raj Mehta arrived at the office on his last day with a cardboard box of his life in Manchester balanced under one arm and a tea tumbler sealed against the city drizzle in the other. The stairwell smelled of lemon cleaner and the faint current of every Monday morning for nine years. He paused at the reception desk where a Post-it army of tiny hearts and doodled moustaches formed a neon wreath around the monitor. Someone had written GOOD LUCK in block capitals and then underlined it six times. Raj smiled because he knew which six people had conspired to make it look enthusiastic and which one had absentmindedly done the underlining while on a phone call about a logo that needed to "pop more."
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. Gather a few memories by email or a shared document, then one person writes them into the brief. Up to 2,000 characters fits a lot of stories.
Yes. Pick the date and it goes that day, early afternoon in the UK, with the team's message on the card. Send it to a personal email if their work account closes.
Yes. Have the book sent to the organiser instead, read page one aloud, and print the PDF as a keepsake.
The Short novel is $2.99, the Medium (about 60,000 words) $4.99. Prices are in US dollars and your card converts them.
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.