Nobody knows her like you do: the teenage promises, the arguments in the back of the car, the holiday you still haven't taken. Put it all in a novel with her as the heroine.
Sisters are hard to buy for because they know you too well. A candle says you ran out of ideas, and she will tell you so.
A Novellum book is a gift only a sister could give. Write down a few things about her: what she does now, what she was like at fourteen, the plan you made together and never kept, the phrase that still makes you both laugh. Pick up to two genres (comedy and adventure work for most sisters; romance if she is the romantic one) and we write a whole novel with her as the heroine, and you in it as well if you like.
It costs from $2.99, arrives by email on her birthday, at Christmas or on any day you choose, and you can add a narrated audiobook. Because nothing ships, it reaches a sister in Sydney as easily as one down the road.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Hannah Doyle, 34, a graphic designer in Bristol and the older sister who always had a plan, is dragged by her younger sister onto the West Highland Way they promised to walk as teenagers, in the rain, with the wrong boots and one map (comedy and adventure). The hero is invented.
The first thing Hannah noticed was the slogan on her sister's bum. It was a cheerful, neon sticker stuck to the back pocket of Kate's cheap rain trousers and it read "ADVENTURE AWAITS" in letters so earnest they made Hannah feel cynical on principle. Rain hammered the bus station canopy in rude, punctual bursts. People moved like reluctant props in a wet play. Hannah tugged at a strap that had been adjusted and re-adjusted until it fit like a bad decision and tried to breathe like someone who could improvise joy.
"You should smile," Kate said, handing her a paper cup of coffee that was already half gone. Rain had made her freckles run together with a proud kind of stubbornness. She had the small, infuriating grin of someone pleased to have surprised someone else. She had the small, infuriating habit of thinking spontaneous plans were symmetrical with well-made ones.
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. Name yourself in the brief and say what part you play. Most sister books have both of you in them.
Yes. She gets nothing until the date you choose, and then a card with your message and the book.
No. Everything arrives by email, so there is no shipping and no customs. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC on the day.
Add the narrated audiobook to the Short novel, $7.99 in total, with four voices to choose from.
Up to 2,000 characters: names, places, in-jokes, the details only you know. Leave out anything she would not want in print.
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.