Graduates get cash, a nice pen and a lot of advice. Give them a story instead: a whole novel where the person who just walked across the stage is the hero of whatever comes next.
Graduation is the one day when everybody says how proud they are and nobody quite knows what to give. Money is useful and forgotten by July. A framed print goes in a box when they move. The things graduates keep tend to be the ones that show someone noticed who they actually are.
A Novellum book does that in story form. Tell us what they studied, the friends they made, the thing they want to do next and the habit everyone teases them about. Pick up to two genres (sci-fi for the engineer, a mystery for the law grad, a road-trip adventure for the one who is moving across the country) and we write a novel with them as the hero.
It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on the day, with your message, so it works for a graduate on the other side of the country or the world. For high school, college, nursing school or a PhD, the hero is whoever you name.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Maya Okafor, the first in her family to finish college, graduates in aerospace engineering in Michigan; the night after commencement the student satellite her team built sends back a signal nobody programmed (sci-fi and adventure). The hero is invented.
The Commencement rain had cleared by midnight, leaving the Diag polished and faintly reflective under sodium lamps. Maya Okafor sat on the library steps, diploma folded in her lap like a small, heavy promise. Her mortarboard lay beside her, tassel tangled with a scrap of confetti she had not yet bothered to pick up. She could hear the distant celebration of other graduates, horns and laughter curling into the warm Ann Arbor night, but her attention was a glowing rectangle in her hand.
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, for older teens. Keep the brief to things they would be happy for family to read, and only name friends who would enjoy being in the story.
Yes. Tick "This is a gift", pick the date and add your message. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC, which is morning in the US.
Yes. One person orders, the message can come from everyone, and the brief can carry a line from each of you.
We only deliver the book and your card. Many people send it alongside a cash gift so the memorable part and the useful part arrive together.
Your card by email with a link to their book as an EPUB and a PDF, and the audiobook too if you add it.
Yes. It is written by AI for one reader, and the book says so on its last page.
Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.