Another tie, another mug, another grilling set. This Father's Day, give him a book where he finally gets to be the hero of the story he has been telling for thirty years.
Dads are famous for saying they do not want anything. What most of them enjoy is being told, in some form, that the family remembers the camping trip, the terrible jokes and the Saturday mornings in the garage.
A Novellum book puts those memories into a novel with him as the hero. Tell us about him: his job, his hobbies, the car he restored, the team he follows, the phrase he says every time he leaves the house. Pick up to two genres (adventure and comedy are dad classics; a thriller suits the one who reads airport novels) and we write the whole book.
Father's Day is on 20 June 2027 in the US, the UK and South Africa. Choose the date, add your message, and his card arrives by email that day. It costs from $2.99, and the narrated audiobook is ideal for the dad who listens to everything in the truck. It works for his birthday or Christmas too.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Ray Castillo, 58, a retired firefighter in Tucson, Arizona, restores a 1967 Ford pickup with his two grown daughters every Saturday, then drives it with them to the Grand Canyon, the trip he promised when they were little (adventure and comedy). The hero is invented.
Ray Castillo wiped his hands on an oil-streaked rag and squinted at the sun as it climbed over the low Tucson hills. The garage smelled like gasoline, coffee and something sweet that had spent too long near a radiator hose. He could have sworn the carburetor was mocking him. He had been convinced of that about thirteen times since they began this project, but stubbornness was a family trait and a good laugh was more powerful than a wrench. He set the rag down on the fender of the 1967 Ford pickup and ran a thumb along the faded emblem. The truck knew his weight on the seat, the rhythm of his hands, the particular way his daughters placed a wrench when they wanted him to show them something again.
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 them in the brief. Grown children usually enjoy being in Dad's book; for young children, first names only.
Yes. Tick "This is a gift", pick the date and add your message. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC, morning in the US.
Add the narrated audiobook, in one of four voices, and he can listen while he drives or works.
The links in your confirmation email lead to the same book, so you can read it too.
Yes. Choose comedy as one of the two genres and put his best jokes in the brief.
Yes. It is written by AI for one reader and says so on its last page.
Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.