Nurses get a lot of chocolate. Give the one you want to thank a novel instead, with them as the hero of a long, chaotic shift that only they could get through.
People want to thank nurses all year round: after a hospital stay, at the end of a training placement, for Nurses Week in May, or because a friend or partner has just finished a run of night shifts. The usual gifts are snacks for the break room and a card.
A Novellum book says thank you in a way that lasts longer than a tin of cookies. Tell us about them: where they work, the shift they love or dread, the colleagues they rely on, the habit everyone teases them about. Pick up to two genres (adventure and comedy work well; a thriller suits the ER nurse) and we write a whole novel with them as the hero.
It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on the day you choose, so it does not need to get past a ward's mail room. Add the narrated audiobook for the drive home after a night shift.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Rosa Martinez, 38, a night shift ER nurse in Phoenix, Arizona, who keeps the department running on coffee, dark humor and a drawer of snacks, has to hold the ER, a maternity scare and one very confused tourist together when a rare snowstorm knocks out the power (adventure and comedy). The hero is invented.
Rosa Martinez counted the beeping machines the way other people counted blessings. At 38 she could tell the difference between a machine that was merely being dramatic and one that would make a family forget how to breathe. The ER on the night shift smelled like burnt coffee, antiseptic and the faint perfume of someone who had hoped the universe would be kinder. She moved through it with the calm of someone who had lived many small disasters and learned to categorize them by their snack drawer needs.
On the monitor wall a rhythm flickered like a stubborn heartbeat. A nurse on orientation, hands still tentative, hovered nearby. Rosa offered a smile that was primarily caffeine and empathy. She handed over a granola bar from a drawer that had known more secrets than the hospital records department. "If your hands shake," she said, "eat first. Chart second unless the patient is trying to leave with the oxygen tank." The trainee laughed. Laughter was its own triage sometimes.
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. Use only details the nurse would be happy to see in print, and never another patient's private information. Keep the brief to them and their work.
Yes. One person orders and writes the brief with the team's stories, and the card can come from all of you.
It is a novel, not a manual. The book follows your brief and keeps the hospital scenes believable, but it is fiction.
In the US it runs from May 6 to May 12 each year, ending on Florence Nightingale's birthday. You can schedule the book for any date.
Add the narrated audiobook to the Short novel, $7.99 in total.
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.