Most personalised books are illustrated stories for children. This is a novel for grown-ups: tens of thousands of words, in the genres you pick, with a hero you name.
Search for a personalised book and you mostly find lovely picture books for small children, where a name is dropped into a story that already exists. That is a fine gift for a four-year-old. It is not much of one for your brother, your partner or yourself.
A Novellum book is written from scratch around a brief. You choose up to two genres from fantasy, romance, mystery, sci-fi, adventure, thriller, historical, horror, comedy and fairy tale, name the hero, and describe the story you want. The Short novel is about 30,000 words; the Full is about 95,000, the length of a typical paperback. The hero's name is not pasted in: the plot is built around them, the places you mention and the people you put in.
Buy it for yourself or as a gift. Read page one free first, with no account and no card. The finished book arrives in about two hours as an EPUB and a PDF.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Ade Okafor, a night bus driver in Manchester, notices a stop on his route that is on no map (sci-fi and thriller). The hero is invented.
The rain came down in thin, persistent threads that turned the city glassy and wrong. Ade Okafor kept his hands light on the wheel and watched the reflected headlights trail away like small comets. The route map stuck to the dashboard was frayed at the corners and annotated with chalk where the lights were unreliable and where fares were loaded into the machine by dusk. He had driven this line for five years and believed he could read the city by the way the night settled into its alleyways. Tonight something else had crept into the street.
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.
Short, about 30,000 words, $2.99; Medium, about 60,000, $4.99; Full, about 95,000, $6.99. The Bundle is three Medium books for $13.99.
Yes. Name yourself as the hero and leave the gift option off and it comes straight to you.
The books are written as novels for adult readers. For a child, choose fairy tale or adventure and say in the brief that the reader is young, and read page one free to judge whether it suits them. It is still a novel, not a picture book.
No. Each book is written for one reader from one brief, and nobody else ever receives it.
Yes. Every book is written by AI and says so on its final page and in its file details.
Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.