A gift for your boyfriend: an adventure with him as the hero

Another hoodie, another gadget, another bottle. Or a fast-paced novel where he climbs, races, solves or rescues his way to the last page, written only for him.

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Buying for a boyfriend often comes down to his hobby, which means buying gear he probably already researched and chose himself. The gifts that land are the ones that show you were paying attention: the trail he talks about, the band he saw at nineteen, the thing he is quietly proud of.

A Novellum book is built from that attention. Tell us his name, where he lives, what he does on weekends and what he would never admit he is scared of. Pick up to two genres: adventure and thriller for the outdoors type, sci-fi for the gamer, mystery for the one who solves every TV whodunit before the end. We write a whole novel with him as the hero.

From $2.99, it arrives by email on his birthday, your anniversary or Christmas morning with your message. If he would rather listen on a run or a commute, add the narrated audiobook.

A real page one

This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Marcus Hale, a bike mechanic in Denver, finds a rope that should not be there and a message in the rock on a solo climb in Eldorado Canyon (adventure and thriller). The hero is invented.

Marcus Hale found the rope where the trail narrowed into a chute of schist and shadow, a bright blue snake laid against the gray like it did not belong to the canyon at all. He was three rappels up from the parking lot, crampons folded into the pack he carried but not yet needed, and the rope's working end was looped through a hardened slingshot of a piton hammered into a crack that smelled faintly of old metal and pine resin. Marcus crouched and ran his fingers along the sheath. It was new enough to sting the eyes with the smell of factory and rope lube. It should not have been there.

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.

How it works

  1. Pick up to two genres and name the hero.
  2. Tell us the story in your own words: names, places, the details only you know. Then read page one free, with no account and no card.
  3. Tick "This is a gift" and add their name and email, your message and the day it should arrive.
  4. We write the whole book, usually in about two hours, and hold it until the day. Then they get your card and their book as an EPUB and a PDF.

What it costs

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.

Can I be in the story?

Yes. Write yourself in as the partner, the rival or the voice on the radio. Romance as a second genre adds the two of you to any adventure.

He does not read much. Will he like it?

Add the narrated audiobook ($7.99 with the Short novel) and he can listen in the car or at the gym. Read page one free first to check the pace.

Can it arrive on a set day?

Yes. Tick "This is a gift", pick the date up to a year ahead, and it arrives that day with your message.

How long is it?

The Short novel is about 30,000 words. The Medium is about 60,000 and the Full about 95,000.

What does it cost?

From $2.99. You pay only after you have read page one.

Is it written by AI?

Yes. It is written by AI for one reader and says so on its final page.

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Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.