The baby gets the onesies, the blankets and the stuffed giraffes. The new dad gets a pat on the back. Give him a short, funny novel where he is the hero of his own first weeks.
New dads are rarely bought anything. They are running on four hours of sleep, learning to fold a stroller with one hand and doing laps of the living room at two in the morning. Most gifts for them are really gifts for the baby.
A Novellum book is just for him. Write a few lines: his job, his hobbies, the baby's first name, the moment you knew he would be a good dad, the thing that went hilariously wrong in week one. Pick up to two genres (comedy and adventure is perfect for the sleepless) and we write a short novel with him as the hero.
It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on the day you choose. We suggest the audiobook edition for $7.99: he can listen with one earbud during night feeds, at a volume that will not wake anyone.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Tomas Arvizu, 33, a high school band director in Albuquerque, New Mexico, three weeks into being a father to baby Lucia, sets out across the city at three in the morning in a freak snowstorm, in his old pickup with the baby monitor app open and a marching band playlist on, because the house has run out of the one formula Lucia will drink (comedy and adventure). The hero is invented.
Tomas Arvizu kept one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the soft forehead pressed to his chest. The baby monitor app glowed on his phone, tiny waves of Lucia's breathing pulsing like a metronome he could not stop conducting. Outside, the world was a bad watercolor smeared with white. Snow had crept into Albuquerque as if somebody had mistaken the city for a holiday movie set, and every streetlight looked like a microphone spotlight gone dim. He had not expected snow at all. He had expected three more hours of sleep, a quiet, domestic kind of fatigue, and the small, slow bloom of confidence parents tell each other about. He had definitely not expected to be fighting the interstate at three in the morning with a vinyl marching band playlist blasting to keep his brain from slipping into panic.
He eased his hand into the pocket of his coat and checked the folded list he had made in the kitchen like it was a map to salvation. Two stores. One chain within a friendly highway swerve and a smaller place that closed at two. Both were likely closed now. In his mind he could already see the clerk telling him no, sorry, not tonight. In his mind he could see Lucia's tiny face getting red and wet as the monitor's sensor picked up strains of hunger.
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.
Because his hands will be full. The audiobook plays on any phone, and a Short book is a few hours of listening, about right for a week of night feeds.
Yes. For his first Father's Day, which is June 20, 2027 in the US, schedule it for the day.
If you like. First names only is wise. Many people make the baby the happy ending rather than a character.
Yes. Put everyone's names in the From line and collect stories from the grandparents for the brief.
The Short, about 30,000 words, is the right size for a tired new parent. Medium and Full are available if he is a big reader.
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.