Turning forty tends to bring the same gifts: over-the-hill jokes, a nice bottle, an experience voucher. Here is one they will not get twice: a book about them.
A 40th is a milestone people actually want marked, but it is hard to find a present that fits it. Joke gifts get a laugh and go in the bin. Expensive gifts need the budget of a group. Most other things are just a nicer version of what they would buy themselves.
A novel written about them is a milestone gift that is also funny, touching or thrilling, depending on the genres you choose. Put their friends, their city and their famous stories in the brief. Make it a thriller about their surprise party, a comedy about their first forty years, or an adventure they have always talked about taking. We write it after you order, and you read page one free before you pay.
Deliver it on the morning of their birthday with a message from the group, or read the first page at the party.
This is how one of our books begins. The brief: Jess Moreno, about to turn forty in Austin, mistakes her friends' surprise-party planning for a conspiracy (thriller and comedy). The hero is invented.
When Jess Moreno woke to the sound of her phone vibrating against the nightstand she assumed the worst and then the ridiculous, in that order. It was 6:17 a.m. in Austin and the sky was still the color of overbrewed coffee. She lay very still for thirty seconds, counting breaths, because she had learned that calm meant better choices, and better choices were the only things standing between her and another year where she pretended her back did not hurt. When she finally fished the phone out from under the duvet she saw three missed calls, a text that read we need you, and no discernible name attached to any of them because the last week of calls had rearranged her contacts into a private, shifty economy.
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. One person places the order and writes everyone's stories into the brief. Put all your names in the From line on the card.
Yes. Choose comedy as one of the genres and say in the brief what kind of humor they like. Page one, free, shows you the tone before you pay.
Yes. Pick the date and it arrives that day with your message: morning in the Americas, early afternoon in the UK and South Africa.
The Short novel is $2.99, the Short with its narrated audiobook $7.99, the Medium $4.99 and the Full $6.99, all in US dollars.
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.