Shipping takes two weeks, customs takes a cut, and the parcel arrives the day after the anniversary. A novel about the two of you arrives on the day, wherever they are.
Long-distance couples know the gift problem well. Anything physical has to survive international shipping, import duty and a delivery window that ignores time zones. Flowers ordered from abroad rarely look like the photo. And the thing you want to say, that the distance has not changed anything, does not fit in a box anyway.
A Novellum book is a story about the two of you. Tell us how you met, where each of you lives, the call you make every night at an hour nobody else would choose, and the place you will meet next. Pick up to two genres: romance on its own, or romance with adventure if you want them to chase clues across an ocean. We write a whole novel with your partner as the hero, and only they receive it.
It costs from $2.99 and arrives by email on the day you choose, in any country, with your message on the card. No courier, no customs form, no tracking number to refresh.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Priya Raman, an architect in Chicago, and Luke, who teaches English in Lisbon, talk every night at her 1 a.m. and his 7 a.m. (romance and adventure). The hero is invented.
The first time Priya Raman noticed the postcard, it was tucked between a stack of invoices and a half-drunk mug of coffee that had sat long enough to smell like old citrus. It was late, the kind of late that makes the city feel like a set where only the streetlights are awake. Her drafting table glowed under the lamp and the skyline beyond the window was a smudge of office towers and traffic. She turned the card over with fingers that still smelled faintly of plaster dust and drying mortar and saw Luke’s handwriting, small and generous, curling up the left margin.
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. The book arrives by email as an EPUB and a PDF, so there is no shipping, no customs and no delivery fee. Prices are in US dollars and your card converts them.
Gift cards go out at 13:00 UTC on the day you pick. Check what that is in their time zone: in Australia and New Zealand it is late at night, so choose the day before if it must be there when they wake.
Yes. Tick "This is a gift", choose the date, up to a year ahead, and add your message.
Yes. Up to 2,000 characters of brief: how you met, places, private jokes. Nobody at Novellum reads it, and it is deleted after 90 days.
Yes. The Short novel with its narrated audiobook is $7.99, read in one of four voices you choose.
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.