Who is supporting Novel November?

Novel November (NovNov) 2025 was supported by a range of renowned companies and personalities. That included our sponsoring partners, as well as social media figures and bestselling authors.

Novel November partners

Scrivener

Scrivener is a popular writing app designed with creative writers in mind. Our ProWritingAid Desktop Everywhere integrates with Scrivener too.

ElevenReader

ElevenReader is a reader app that can read books, articles, and PDFs with clear and natural voice reader technology. It also makes it easy to create audiobooks from original text-based manuscripts.

Bookouture

Bookouture is the world's leading digital-first publisher of commercial fiction. They connect authors with a global audience and have sold over 100 million copies worldwide.

Kickstarter

Kickstarter is the world’s biggest crowdfunding platform. Since it launched in 2009, it has helped to fund more than 275,000 projects with the backing of over 25 million supporters. Kickstarter also supports writers’ publishing projects in a wide range of genres.

Wattpad

Wattpad is a website that hosts work by original fiction writers online. With a focus on the romance and fan fiction genres, it was founded in 2006 and has since had over 600 million users and over 100 million monthly readers.

Lulu

Lulu is an innovative print-on-demand publisher that was founded in 2002. They have helped more than 2.6 million authors worldwide to print and publish their own books and sell them directly to their readers.

Campfire

Campfire is a writing software platform that makes it easy to bring your story to life. The platform also serves as a multipurpose tool by allowing you to directly self-publish on Campfire and even read other published works within the community. Our ProWritingAid Desktop Everywhere integrates with Campfire too.

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Author Nation

Author Nation is the world’s largest independent author conference. It is hosted yearly during November in Las Vegas and features over 200 educational sessions. It also has a popular podcast and YouTube channel.

Learn Self-Publishing

Learn Self-Publishing offers a suite of in-depth media and genre-focused online courses to help writers master every aspect of self-publishing. It’s also home to the Self Publishing Show Live, an in-person writing event hosted annually in London.

Visit the Learn Self-Publishing website.

Indie Author Magazine

Indie Author Magazine is a monthly online magazine focused on the writing craft. It features news, exclusive author interviews, information on writing events, and genre-specific tips and guides. Subscribers can unlock even more content with full access to the entire back catalog of articles.

Get 100% off your first year’s subscription of Indie Author Magazine.

The Book Incubator

The Book Incubator is a novel writing program with online guided writing courses and classes hosted by bestselling authors. The teaching team on the program includes Mary Adkins and Rufi Thorpe.

Writing Mastery Academy

The Writing Mastery Academy was created by Jessica Brody, the bestselling author of Save The Cat! Writes a Novel. The academy offers a rich range of resources and classes, including writing templates and tools, as well as live writing exercises.

BookBaby

BookBaby provides self-publishing services that incorporate every aspect of the publishing journey, including printing, distribution, marketing, and even cover design. Since 2011, it has helped over 50,000 independent authors to self-publish their books. Get a free copy of Understanding Your Target Audience, developed in partnership with Publisher's Weekly.

Visit BookBaby and download your free guide.

Novel November mentors

Madeline Miller

Madeline Miller is a New York Times bestselling author. She has written two novels. Her first novel, The Song of Achilles, won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2012. Circe, her second novel, was an instant number 1 New York Times bestseller and won five literary awards.

Tomi Adeyemi

Tomi Adeyemi is an author, actress, and writing coach who has written three instant number 1 New York Times bestseller novels. Her trilogy of books—Children of Blood and Bone, Children of Virtue and Vengeance, and *Children of Anguish and Anarchy—*has sold over 3 million copies. Tomi also teaches writing as part of The Writer’s Roadmap course.

Mary Adkins

Mary Adkins is an author and online writing coach who hosts the writing program, The Book Incubator. She has written three novels, When You Read This, Privilege, and Palm Beach, which have been published in 13 countries.

Rufi Thorpe

Rufi Thorpe is the author of four novels, including her most recent bestselling book, Margot’s Got Money Troubles. She also teaches online fiction classes in The Book Incubator writing program.

Graham Bartlett

Graham Bartlett is a Sunday Times bestselling crime fiction author. He has written three novels in the Chief Superintendent Jo Howe series, including Bad for Good, Force of Hate, and City on Fire. Graham also runs online writing courses and events with the Professional Writing Academy.

Onyi Nwabineli

Onyi Nwabineli is the author of Someday, Maybe, published in 2022. The novel was selected as a Good Morning America pick, and Onyi is also the founder of the Black Pens writing retreat.

Abbie Emmons

Abbie Emmons has a YouTube channel with over 500,000 subscribers. She hosts weekly writing tutorial videos on her channel with top tips, storytelling ideas, and inspiration. She has also written three published novels.

Jessica Brody

Jessica Brody has written over 20 published novels, including the bestselling Save the Cat! Writes a Novel. She also holds a wide range of writing courses for fast drafting novels.

Jed Herne

Jed Herne is a fantasy author who has published four fantasy novels, including Kingdom of Dragons. He also hosts a YouTube channel that has over 140,000 subscribers.

Mel Torrefranca

Mel Torrefranca is a published author who is also the founder of the Lost Island Press. She has a YouTube channel with over 80,000 subscribers.