They have the mug with the dog's face on it, the sweatshirt and the calendar. Give them a novel where their own dog finally gets the role it deserves.
Every dog owner has stories. The sock that disappeared for a week, the walk where the dog found a whole rotisserie chicken, the way it knows the sound of the cheese drawer from three rooms away. Most gifts for dog lovers are a photo of the dog printed on something.
A Novellum book puts the stories in. Write a few lines: the owner's name and job, the dog's name, breed and habits, the walk they do every day, the dog's worst crime. Pick up to two genres (mystery and comedy is the natural pairing, with a nose for clues) and we write a whole novel with the owner as the hero and the dog as the sidekick who steals every scene.
It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on the day you choose, with your message. Add the narrated audiobook to listen to on the long walk.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Renee Castellano, 45, a dental hygienist in Tucson, Arizona, and her beagle Waffles, who has never met a sandwich he could not steal, have to find her best friend's wedding ring when it goes missing an hour before the vows (mystery and comedy). The hero is invented.
Renee Castellano straightened her apron and tried to remember the mnemonic for polishing molars while a mariachi trumpet blared in the next room. Waffles had other priorities. He was tucked under a folding chair by the hors d oeuvre table, one ear flicking like a radar dish, his nose pushed into a napkin that smelled faintly of smoked salmon and tequila. He looked up at her with the guilty expression he used whenever he had just discovered that bagels were not, in fact, forbidden fruit.
"You are not supposed to be scouting the buffet," Renee said, which was mostly a reminder to herself. Her best friend Marisol had been laughing at the dessert table an hour ago, her hair pinned with baby breath and her wedding dress trailing just far enough to get a buttercream smear. Guests clustered around a makeshift salsa bar. String lights winked from the branches of an olive tree that had no business being so well lit. Tucson twilight softened the stucco into something romantic and forgiving.
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.
The hero is a person, and the dog can be the star sidekick. Give the dog's name, breed and habits and the book will use them.
Yes. Any animal works. Tell us its name, its habits and its crimes.
It can be, gently. Say in the brief that the book should celebrate the dog, and read page one before you pay.
Gift books are warm and clean unless you ask for something else.
Yes. Pick any date up to a year ahead. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC, 8 a.m. on the East Coast.
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.