The phrase 'in novel' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a new or unique way of doing something. For example: She created a new way of solving the problem in novel fashion.
People who use them in novel ways call them tags.
Other design-thinking projects have also resulted in novel solutions.
But it can be done incrementally, and in novel ways.
Colors, sounds, touch and space are intertwined in novel ways.
In novel after novel he explored the uses of complex narrative devices.
Some of the most interesting developments involve harvesting energy and sunlight in novel ways.
For Shriver, 55, this book surely represents some kind of wish-fulfilment in novel form.
I will be saving my Monk tie-in novel (by Lee Goldberg) for another, easier quiz.
In novel-product innovation, China is very weak.
The same principle applies in novel-writing, but instead of dollars, read 'months'".
Another analogy, from my sideline in novel-writing: publishers always want a synopsis of your unwritten novel.
