I've been playing around with a visual novel maker called Visual Novelty, and it seems pretty nice so far. It's pretty easy to handle once you know all the basic functions, and doesn't need any fancy coding.
So far I've only made one character, so I will need to start drawing more. I made a short one for practice here, if you want to see it:
http://www.gamefront.com/files/20491808/Build.rar
PS: If you get an error for dx something, it might need this direct X thing to work:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en
:lol: