Free blurb writer
Your blurb isn’t a summary. It’s an ad.
Answer six plain questions about your book. We’ll turn them into a draft, then check it for the mistakes most blurbs make. Free, no sign-up, and your answers never leave your browser.
Just one name. If there are two main characters, pick the one the story follows most.
A few words. Their job or role, and the place.
This is the part most authors skip, and it’s the part that makes a reader care.
One thing, early in the book. Not the ending.
Something you could point at. Not “everything.”
One line about the feeling of reading it, like the dread, the romance, or the puzzle. Don’t hint at the ending.
One sentence that could sell the book on its own. It goes first, and on most store pages it’s the only line people see before “Read more.”
In their words, so they see themselves in it.
They’ve probably tried the obvious thing already.
Your method, or the new idea in it.
Name them. Saying who it’s for convinces the right people.
Something they could check. Not “transform your life.”
One sentence that could sell the book on its own. It goes first.
The formula
Five parts, in this order.
Most blurbs that sell are 100 to 200 words and do these five things, then stop.
- The hook. One sentence that states the situation and makes sense by itself.
- The setup. Who the book is about, where they are, and what they want.
- The turn. What goes wrong. One sentence, early in the book.
- The stakes. What they lose, said plainly. The farm, the child, the last four days.
- The close. What the reader is in for. The feeling, never the ending.
Write it in present tense, even for a first-person novel. Name no more than two characters. Cut words like “gripping” that every book uses.
Put it on your back cover
The Cover Maker sets your blurb on the real back cover, beside the barcode and spine, so you find out it’s too long while you can still cut it.