Flowers last a week and chocolates less. For Mothering Sunday, give your mum the stories the family tells about her, written into a novel where she is the heroine.
Every family has its stories about Mum: how she met Dad, the job she did before you were born, the holiday that went wrong, the thing she always says. They get told at every gathering and written down nowhere.
A Novellum book puts them in a novel with her as the heroine. Gather a few details from the family, pick up to two genres (romance and historical for how your parents met, a cosy mystery for a mum who loves crime dramas, comedy for a mum with a famous sense of humour) and we write the book. It can even be told in her own voice.
In the UK, Mothering Sunday falls on 7 March 2027. In the US and South Africa, Mother's Day is on 9 May 2027. Choose the date, add your message, and the card arrives by email that day. It costs from $2.99, and the narrated audiobook makes it something she can listen to while she potters in the garden. It works just as well for her birthday or Christmas.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Carol Pemberton, 71, has lived in the same Cotswolds cottage since 1979; her daughter wants the story of how Carol, a nurse in training, met her late husband Dennis at a village dance in 1974, told from Carol's side (romance and historical). The hero is invented.
The rain began in the small hours and persisted long enough to wash the dust from the stone wall that runs along the lane to my garden. I stood at my kitchen window with a mug warming both hands and watched the drops bead on the ivy until the world beyond the glass looked as though it had been painted with a soft, forgiving brush. The cottage has been mine since 1979, which means it has lived with me through more seasons than I once could have imagined, but tonight my thoughts are elsewhere. They drift back to a different rain, a different kitchen, and a different kind of young woman who thought she knew exactly how a life was meant to be arranged.
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. Say so in the brief and we can write it in the first person, as if she were telling it.
Yes. Tick "This is a gift", choose the date and add your message. Cards go out at 13:00 UTC, early afternoon in the UK.
Yes. One person orders, the brief can carry memories from everyone and the message can be signed by all of you.
Yes, if the family is comfortable with it. Many people write a late parent or grandparent into the story as a loving presence.
You get a PDF that prints well at any copy shop, plus an EPUB for e-readers.
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.