Made by Curtis, in Nottingham.

The short version

Spice My Story is a personalised romance book company based in Nottingham. I'm Curtis, the founder. I started it in 2026 after watching my partner work her way through spicier romance novels and thinking the same idea — a real, full-length romance — would land harder still if the two characters on the page were her and someone she cared about.

Each book is a full-length novel: 200 pages in the paperback, 230 in the hardcover, written by a writing system I built and tuned in-house, printed and posted from the UK. That's the whole thing.

Why I make these

The idea was selfish at first. My partner reads a lot of romance — the spicier end of the shelf — and I'd watched her get attached to characters that had nothing to do with her or me. There's a moment when you finish a book like that and you think the leads are great, but you also know it's not your story.

I started looking at the personalised-book market expecting to find what I had in my head — a real novel where the two leads were the couple receiving it. What I found was lots of short illustrated books, fill-in journals, scrapbook things. Nice ideas, but not what I wanted to give.

So I built it. Not as a stunt, not as a hustle — as the thing I wished existed. The first prototype was rough and the spice levels were all wrong. The current version isn't perfect either, but it's good, and every book I send out gets a bit better.

If you're here because someone bought you a book and you're checking who we are — that's me. If you're here because you're thinking about ordering — that's the why.

How the books are made

I'm going to be transparent about this because I think it matters more than pretending.

The books are written by an AI system I built specifically for Spice My Story. It's not a wrapper around a chatbot. The book worlds, the chapter beats, the eight tone presets, the five spice levels, the safety rules for what gets refused or softened, the page layout that goes to the printer — all of that I designed and tuned myself. The AI is the writing engine inside it, doing the prose generation. The craftsmanship is in everything around it.

Every order goes through a production workflow before it's printed: the generation runs, the output is checked, the typesetting is laid out, the PDF goes to our print partner, and the book ships from the UK.

I won't claim every book is read cover-to-cover before it goes to print — they're 200 pages each. What I will tell you is that I spot-check, I read the openings, I review the safety system's flags, and I've personally tuned the prompts that produce the prose. If a book has a problem, it's mine to fix.

I think you'd rather know all that than be sold the fantasy that there's a team of human authors. There isn't. There's me, the system I built, and the print run.

What I won't do

A short, specific list. This is what I think a personalised-romance company should and shouldn't be:

• Every character in every book is a consenting adult. The system refuses to do otherwise.
• I won't generate books involving real public figures or anyone you don't have the right to put in fiction.
• I won't accept input that's hateful, non-consensual, or unsafe — the safety system softens or refuses these before they reach the prose.
• I won't claim the books are written by humans. They're not.
• The personal details you enter — names, memories, dedications — are used to produce your book. They're not sold. They're not shared. They're not used to train anything outside this product.

Get in touch

Email is coming soon. In the meantime, the contact form on our contact page lands in my inbox directly. I read every message.

— Curtis