Your child as the hero
Turn your little one into the star of their own adventure — a bedtime world built just for them, with their name on every page.
A keepsake, not a content mill
A novel only your family could star in.
Dearly helps you write a deeply personal story for the people you love — a book full of the small details only you would know. You stay the author. We just walk beside you, chapter by chapter.
Early access is opening soon. No spam — just one note when it’s your turn.
Why Dearly exists
Some stories are too important to leave unwritten.
There’s a particular kind of book that can’t be bought — the one where your daughter is the hero, where your grandfather’s sayings live on the page, where the inside jokes and the bedtime worlds you invented together are finally written down.
Dearly was built for everyone who has ever thought I wish I could give them something that lasts. You don’t need to be a writer, and you don’t need a special occasion — you just need someone worth writing for.
Most people never start because writing a whole novel feels impossible. Dearly makes the impossible part feel like a conversation.
How it works
Curated by you, not churned out by a machine.
Dearly is a guided workshop, not a “generate” button. It carries the heavy lifting of structure and consistency so your attention stays where it belongs — on what you want to say.
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Bring your people and your memories
Tell Dearly who the story is for and pour in the raw material — characters, real anecdotes, the places and phrases that matter. These details become the heart the whole book is built around.
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Shape the story together
Pitch and refine ideas, choose a direction, and build a storyline. Dearly suggests; you decide. Nothing is locked until it feels right to you.
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Write it chapter by chapter
Watch prose take shape in real time, then steer it — rewrite a line, deepen a scene, keep your characters consistent across the whole novel. You curate every chapter.
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Make it a book worth keeping
Review, illustrate, and produce a finished keepsake you can hold, share, and pass down — a real book with their name on it.
See the idea
Your real life, woven into a story.
You bring the true, ordinary details. Dearly helps you turn them into a scene that sounds like a book — and still sounds like you.
What you bring
- Grandad always said “measure twice, cut once.”
- The shed at the bottom of the garden — smelled of sawdust and tea.
- Ellie was scared of the dark until she was nine.
- He let her hold the torch while he worked.
What you shape together
Chapter Three — The Torch
The shed always smelled of sawdust and strong tea, and Grandad measured everything twice. “Measure twice, cut once,” he’d say, the way other people said grace.
Ellie was nine and still a little afraid of the dark, so he gave her the most important job in the world: holding the torch. As long as she kept the light steady on his hands, he told her, nothing in the shadows could matter at all.
Every name, place, and saying here would be yours. That’s the whole point.
Who it’s for
Written for the moments that matter most.
The once-in-a-lifetime gift
A wedding, a milestone birthday, a new baby — a personalised novel says what a card never could.
Keepers of family history
Turn the stories that live only in memory into a book the next generation can actually hold.
Just because they matter
You don’t need a special occasion. Some people are simply worth a whole book — and this is how you write it.
Questions
The things people ask first.
Do I need to be a writer?
Not at all. Dearly is designed for people who have a story to tell, not a craft to prove. It guides you through every phase and does the structural heavy lifting — you bring the heart and make the choices.
Is the book just AI-generated?
No. Dearly is a curated workshop, not a one-click generator. AI helps draft and keep your characters consistent, but you steer every chapter — refining, rewriting, and approving until it’s truly yours.
Whose story is it — and who owns it?
It’s yours, start to finish. The names, memories, and voice are your own, and the finished book belongs to you and the family you wrote it for.
What do I end up with?
A finished, personalised novel you can review, illustrate, and produce as a keepsake to share and pass down.
When can I start?
We’re opening early access in stages. Join the waitlist and we’ll send you one note the moment it’s your turn — no spam in between.
Start the book they’ll keep forever.
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