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Book Description Generator
Your blurb, built slot by slot — hook, set-up, turn, stakes, tease — because sales copy is a structure, not an inspiration.
TSP-034 · Book Description Generator · Free / no account
Note ⊕The form opens with a worked example so you can see what each slot does — overwrite it with your book. Aim for 100–200 words: long enough to promise, short enough to be read whole.
How far would you row to bury a secret…
Lighthouse keeper's daughter Etta Vane has spent nineteen years on Carrick Skerry, reading the sea like other people read the post. But when a storm washes a locked mail chest ashore — stamped with her dead mother's initials — the island's quiet starts to feel arranged.
Opening it will cost her the only family she has left. Not opening it means the lie gets another generation. Some letters should sink. Hers learned to swim.
For readers of coastal mysteries and slow-burning family secrets.
First paragraph is your hook — on Amazon it is the only part shown before the “Read more” fold, so it carries the sale.
The book description is the hardest 150 words most authors ever write: you have lived inside the whole story, and now you must sell it without telling it. This free book description generator breaks the job into the slots retail blurbs are actually built from — a hook line, the set-up, the turn, the stakes and the tease for fiction; problem, promise, authority and deliverables for non-fiction. Fill the slots, and the description assembles as you type.
The form opens with a worked example so you can see what each slot is doing before you overwrite it with your own book — and the first paragraph is styled bold for a reason: on Amazon, only your opening shows above the 'Read more' fold. Pair the finished description with your author bio, study the shapes in our book blurb examples, and make sure the listing it lives on can be found with the right KDP keywords.
- Write the hook last — it is a distillation, not a starting point.
- Name your protagonist; 'one woman' sells fewer books than a person.
- End on the question, not the answer.
- Read it aloud once — blurbs are rhythm as much as information.
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Choose fiction or non-fiction
The slots change with the job: fiction sells a tension (set-up, turn, stakes), non-fiction sells a transformation (problem, promise, proof, deliverables).
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Fill the slots — or gut the example
Each field explains its role, and a worked example shows a complete description in place. Replace it line by line; the structure holds while your book moves in.
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Copy the assembled description
The description builds live with a word count — aim for 100–200 words. Copy it straight into KDP, IngramSpark or your back cover brief.
Common questions
- What is the difference between a blurb, a description and a synopsis?
- A blurb and a book description are the same thing by two names: the 100–200 word sales copy on the back cover and retail page, which sets up the story without resolving it. A synopsis is the opposite — a complete summary including the ending, written for agents and editors, never for readers.
- How long should a book description be?
- 100 to 200 words for most books. Long enough to establish a person, a problem and stakes; short enough to be read entire in a browse. On Amazon, remember that only your first paragraph shows before the 'Read more' link — front-load accordingly.
- Should a blurb give away the ending?
- Never — that is a synopsis's job. A blurb's whole mechanism is an opened loop: it raises the question the book answers and stops. The moment the reader knows how it resolves, the purchase has nothing left to deliver.
- How do I write a blurb for a non-fiction book?
- Sell the transformation, not the table of contents: name the reader's problem, promise what changes by the last page, establish why you can deliver it, then list two or three concrete things inside. The non-fiction mode of this tool walks exactly that order.
- Can I use the same description on Amazon and my back cover?
- Mostly, and you should — consistency sells. The usual adjustments: the back cover can run slightly longer and carry review quotes, while the retail page rewards a stronger first line since it is competing in search results, not in a reader's hands.
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