A book description is read in about eight seconds by someone deciding whether to keep reading. The first sentence does almost all of the work, and most descriptions waste it on setup that the second sentence would have covered anyway.
The rest is genre signaling. Consumers are presented with alternative options when they shop and need to understand what kind of book this is in order to know if they like it with just a glance, without needing to know each plot intricacy.
One reading experience encompasses the hook, genre signals, and closing line. A common failure is an opening line that is like a literary work, shifts to the language of a thriller, and then compares it to a cozy series. Readers cannot visualize the story, so they skip the book and choose something more descriptive.
Description phrases found in one genre come together to describe a story with twenty common phrases. Gripping, unputdownable, a race against time, a secret that will change everything. Put three of them side by side in a store listing and a browsing reader cannot tell the books apart, which is the only thing the description had to prevent.
Books often have a mechanism to attract a reader’s interest. They aren’t always found in the first line of a book. Reading book previews brings the ‘hook’ into focus. We like to have three different opening examples prepared according to what we think will work best. We then see if any of these statements work by comparing them side-by-side to the descriptions of five other books yours will be near on the book shop shelf.
Most of this stage is deletion under constraint. Every adjective has to earn its place, every plot detail beyond the setup goes, and the closing line is rewritten until it creates a question rather than answering one. We deliver at more than one length so you can fill different slots without a rewrite.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical book description | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short book | 20,000 | $2,000 | $20 | $2,020 |
| Standard book | 45,000 | $4,500 | $45 | $4,545 |
| Full-length book | 70,000 | $7,000 | $70 | $7,070 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Yes. Send two or three pieces you like the sound of, or your style guide. Matching an established voice is ordinary work for a writer and close to impossible for a model that has never read your back catalogue.
Yes. Tell us the volume and cadence and we keep the same writer on the account so the voice stays consistent. The rate does not change with volume.
Typically, there are around 50 words for catalogs and metadata, around 150 words for most retailer fields, and then a longer explanation for your site written by yourself. Putting them in order together makes the hook consistent across all three, and it matters more than any of them trying to be too clever.
A sample and synopsis is sufficient. However, a full text has the ability to grab a reader’s interest. We unfortunately can not work with a one line premise. Every book in the genre shares that same premise, and the description exists to explain how your book is different.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
Two hundred words that make you want to read a quiet novel about a lighthouse keeper, without giving away that he leaves. Our previous copywriter gave that away in the first line.
I published my second novel, but my own blurb gave away the ending. Theirs ends on the question the book actually is about. It’s 140 words and it took someone who read the manuscript, not skimmed it.
Each of the nine sessions across the five weeks brought the same line of questioning about the shop in 1987. I had to keep telling her there was nothing to say. Chapter four is the part of my memoir my daughter cried over.
We do not ask you to take the no-AI promise on trust. Each draft is run through these platforms and the reports are attached to your delivery email.
Originality.aiAI detection + plagiarism
GPTZeroAI detection
TurnitinAI detection + similarity
CopyleaksAI detection + plagiarism
Winston AIAI detection
ZeroGPTAI detection
SaplingAI detection
Content at ScaleAI detection
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$10 per 100 words · all of it to the writer · 0.5% to trees