If they want something, they buy it. So give them something they cannot buy for themselves: a novel written about them, by request, read by nobody else.
The person who has everything is usually not hard to please. They are hard to surprise. Anything you can find in a store, they could have bought last week, and most of the clever gadget gifts end up in a drawer.
What they do not have is a story with themselves at the center of it. A Novellum book uses the things only you know about them: the trip that went wrong, the hobby they are obsessed with, the thing they always say. You put those in the brief, pick one or two genres, and we write a full novel where they are the hero. It is personal in a way that a price tag cannot be, and it costs from $2.99.
It also takes up no space, which the person with everything will quietly appreciate. It arrives by email on the day you choose, as a file for their phone or e-reader and a PDF they can print.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Tom Brennan, 58, from Denver, owns every gadget and has been everywhere, until an airport mix-up puts him on the wrong plane (adventure and comedy). The hero is invented.
Tom Brennan was the sort of man who had a drawer for everything. In Denver, at fifty eight, he owned a device to pry open car doors when a toddler had locked himself inside, a pocket-sized weather predictor that chimed if a storm might hit miners in the Rockies, and a portable espresso rig that could make a latte at ten thousand feet. He had maps that predated GPS and a backpack built by a craftsman in Kathmandu. People who met him at dinner parties said, with equal parts admiration and mild suspicion, that Tom had been everywhere. He laughed and served up tales like seasoning. The truth was simpler. He carried a map in one pocket and a plan in the other. He liked being ready.
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.
Their name, two genres they would enjoy, and a few true details: a place, a habit, a person, a running joke. You can use their real name, as a gift they will be glad of.
You read page one free before you pay, so you know the voice and the opening. After that the book is theirs, and nobody reads it before they do, including us.
By email, on the day you pick, with your message on a card. The book comes as an EPUB and a PDF, and if you chose the audiobook, a link to listen.
The Short novel is $2.99, the Short with its audiobook $7.99, the Medium $4.99 and the Full $6.99. All in US dollars.
Yes, and it says so on its final page. That is how it can be written for one person, from your brief, in about two hours.
Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.