You drew a name. You have a ten-dollar limit and no idea what they like. Give them a short novel with themselves as the hero, written after you order it and delivered on the day of the swap.
Secret Santa has one rule everyone quietly breaks: spend about ten dollars and make it personal. The personal part is the hard bit. Most gifts at that price are generic on purpose (a candle, a novelty mug, a box of chocolates that goes to the break room), because nobody wants to guess wrong about someone they only half know.
A Novellum book gets around the guessing. You do not need to know their taste in candles. You need one detail: the thing they always talk about, the running joke on your team, the place they went on vacation. Put that in the brief, make them the hero, and the whole book is built around it. A Short novel is $2.99 and the version with its narrated audiobook is $7.99, so both fit inside the limit.
And because there is nothing to ship, it can arrive on the morning of the party, or on any day you pick, with a card that can stay anonymous. Leave the From line empty and the card says the book comes from someone who knows them well.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Dana Kowalski, an accountant in Milwaukee, has to find the missing Secret Santa hat before anyone learns who drew whom (comedy and mystery). The hero is invented.
Dana Kowalski arrived at the office five minutes before anyone else. By nine thirty she had already checked the calendar twice, filed three invoices by alphabetical order and color, and placed a fresh packet of post it notes where all visitors could reach them. Her desk was a small fortress of order: stapler to the left, pencil cup to the right, phone angled like a patient bird. The fortress had never been breached, not by birthday cakes, not by the intern who used to leave half-eaten sandwiches behind the recycling, and not even by last winter when the break room coffee machine staged a protest and sprayed espresso across the copier.
She wore a sweater with tiny reindeer embroidered on the collar because it was the season and because she liked the tiny reindeer to be immaculate. When the office clock chimed nine thirty, she straightened the ribbon on a package that was not yet wrapped and booted her computer. That was when Lara from marketing stuck her head into Accounting and announced, with a tone that pretended to be casual, that the Secret Santa hat had gone missing.
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 card has a From line. Leave it empty and it says the book comes from someone who knows them well. Fill it in after the swap if you like, by replying to the email that tells you the book is ready.
Yes. The Short novel, about 30,000 words, is $2.99. The Short novel with its narrated audiobook is $7.99. Prices are in US dollars and are the same everywhere.
Yes, the book and the card go to them by email. If you would rather hand it over yourself, leave the gift option off, have the book sent to you, and forward it or print the PDF.
One detail is enough: their job, their team's running joke, a city they love. Write it in the brief and choose genres that feel safe for work, like comedy or mystery. You read page one free before you pay, so you can see the tone first.
Yes. Every Novellum book is written by AI for one reader and says so on its final page. Nobody else ever receives the same book.
The Bundle is three Medium books for $13.99: one now and two codes to give whenever you like. For ten or more, write to support@novellumbooks.com.
Questions? Write to us. Novellum books are written by AI, for one reader only.