Another plant, another bottle of wine, another candle. Or a short novel set in the house they just bought, with them as the heroes and a mystery hidden in the walls.
Housewarming gifts tend to be things for the house: a plant that dies by March, a cutting board, a doormat with a pun on it. They are kind, and they get lost in the boxes.
A Novellum book is about the people and the place. Write a few lines: who is moving in, where the house is, what it looks like, the strange thing they found in the attic, the neighbor they have already met. Pick up to two genres (a mystery set in an old house is a favorite; historical works well if the house has a past) and we write a novel with the new owners as the heroes of their first months there.
It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on the day you choose, with your message. Print the PDF and leave it on the kitchen counter with the keys, or bring it to the party.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Jules Whitcombe, 31, a graphic designer who has just bought her first house, a narrow old sea captain's house in Portland, Maine, with her partner Sam, finds a letter from 1871 behind the wallpaper in the front room, addressed to whoever lives here next (mystery and historical). The hero is invented.
The knife caught on a nail and bit into the paper backing. Jules Whitcombe pressed her shoulder against the plaster and eased the strip away in long, patient pulls until a rectangle of yellowed stationery slackened free and fluttered to the floor. The room smelled of old paint, salt, and the lemon oil Sam had used on the hardwood yesterday. Light from the sash window fell in a bar across the floor and picked out dust motes that looked like tiny, determined ships.
From page one, its first paragraph. 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. Describe it in the brief: the street, the rooms, the view, the history if you know it. The book uses what you give it.
Yes. Name one hero and mention the others in the brief. A couple's housewarming book often works best as a mystery they solve together.
Only if you put it in the brief, and we suggest you don't. A street name and a town are plenty.
Yes. Pick any date up to a year ahead. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC, which is 8 a.m. on the East Coast.
Very. Add a few family memories to the brief, and add the audiobook so they can listen while they unpack.
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.