It is the day of, or the night before, and the stores are shut or the shipping is too slow. A Novellum book is written after you order it and arrives in about two hours.
Most last-minute digital gifts announce themselves. An e-gift card says you remembered at 11 p.m. A subscription says you did not know what else to get. Neither says anything about the person you are giving it to.
A book written about them does. You spend ten minutes on the brief (their name, two genres, what should happen) and read page one free straight away. If you like it, pay, and the finished novel is in their inbox about two hours later with your message. Or pick tomorrow's date and it goes out then, on the day.
Nobody needs to know it was a rescue. The book is built around details only you would think of, and it arrives with a card that looks as though it was planned.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Priya Nair, a nurse in Chicago, is working a double shift on her birthday while mysterious notes turn up all day (romance and comedy). The hero is invented.
Priya Nair checked the time again and told herself not to glare at the digital numbers. Ten forty-two on a Tuesday morning in March. Her birthday. She wore the hospital clock like a pacemaker and pretended it did not matter that she was midway through a double shift. She tied her hair into a practical bun and told the fluorescent lights that she still had ten hours to prove them wrong.
Her locker hummed when she opened it. A pink Post-it was stuck to the inside of the door. In looping, slightly crooked handwriting the note read Happy Birthday, Nurse Priya. You can borrow my chocolate if you need it. A heart had been drawn with a pen that had run low on ink. Priya blinked at it and felt the small internal pop of something that was not quite surprise and not quite relief. The chocolate belonged to Mark from night shift. He always left his candy like a peace offering to overtime. He left notes like that sometimes too, but he had left before she arrived.
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.
Usually about two hours from payment to a finished book. You read page one within a minute or two of writing the brief, before you pay anything.
Yes. Leave the date empty and the book and card go as soon as the book is written. Pick a date and it goes on that day instead.
Order now and it still arrives tonight, about two hours after you pay. Or set tomorrow's date so it is there in the morning.
An email with your message, the book as an EPUB and a PDF, and, if you chose it, a link to the narrated audiobook. The links stay live for 90 days.
Yes. Every book 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.