A gift for your girlfriend: a story where she is the heroine

Jewelry and flowers are lovely, and everyone else gives them too. A novel in which she is the smartest, bravest person in every chapter is something nobody else can give her.

Start a gift for her

The best gifts for a girlfriend tend to prove one thing: that you know her. Not just her size or her favorite color, but what she does at work, the place she wants to go, the thing she said on your second date that you still think about.

A Novellum book is built on exactly that. Tell us her name, where she lives, what she loves and how the two of you met. Pick up to two genres: romance and mystery for a light caper, fantasy for the one who reread every series as a teenager, historical for the one with a favorite century. We write a whole novel with her as the heroine, and nobody else ever receives it.

It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on her birthday, your anniversary or Valentine's Day with your message. Read page one free first, so you know she will love the voice.

A real page one

This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Sofia Reyes, a marine biologist in San Diego, finds her research buoy sending coded messages instead of water temperatures (romance and mystery). The hero is invented.

The morning the buoy stopped telling the sea how warm it was Sofia Reyes nearly forgot to check her coffee. The sky had been so clear over La Jolla Cove that the gulls looked like punctuation marks against an argument of blue, and the thermometer reading from Buoy Kestrel usually arrived at exactly 07:12. At 07:17 she stood in her small kitchen scanning the data feed on her laptop and felt something like a mistake would be catastrophic.

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 the story include how we met?

Yes. Put it in the brief, along with places and private jokes, up to 2,000 characters. Nobody at Novellum reads it, and it is deleted after 90 days.

Can it arrive on our anniversary?

Yes. Tick "This is a gift", choose the date up to a year ahead, and add your message.

Can she listen to it?

Yes. The Short novel with its narrated audiobook is $7.99, read in one of four voices you choose.

Will anyone else get the same book?

No. Each book is written after you order it, from your brief, for one reader.

What does it cost?

From $2.99 for a Short novel. 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.