Sample pack
“The Lighthouse Letters” by Mara Quinn (sample)
Small-town, second-chance romance, Kindle and paperback, published 4 months ago. What the author had: one keyword in two boxes, one category, a 300-word summary. What the pack gives: all 7 boxes, 3 categories and a rewritten blurb, from the 10 books that outrank it.
1. The 7 keyword boxes
Each box is written to KDP's 50-character limit, phrases in the order readers type them, no words repeated from the title, subtitle or categories.
| Box | Before | After | Chars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | romance | small town romance second chance beach read sweet | 49 |
| 2 | love story | lighthouse keeper coastal maine seaside love story | 50 |
| 3 | (empty) | clean wholesome romance no spice slow burn | 42 |
| 4 | (empty) | letters found in attic family secrets grief healing | 50 |
| 5 | (empty) | widow starting over fresh start hometown return | 47 |
| 6 | (empty) | women's fiction book club pick emotional uplifting | 50 |
| 7 | (empty) | cozy autumn read heartwarming small coastal town | 48 |
Where they came from: 6 of the top 10 books use “second chance” in the subtitle; “clean” or “wholesome” appears in 7 of their category paths; Amazon's search box suggests “lighthouse romance”, “small town romance clean” and “letters romance novel” when you type the start of each.
2. The 3 categories
Full KDP paths, so you can click straight to them in Edit book details. The third is the one where the top 100 is within reach for a book with 11 reviews.
- Fiction › Romance › Contemporary (keep; this is where it is now)
- Fiction › Romance › Clean & Wholesome (add; 7 of the 10 books that outrank you are here)
- Fiction › Small Town & Rural (add; smaller shelf, the #100 book has 23 reviews)
Sample numbers. In a real pack each shelf's size and its #100 book's review count are read from Amazon on the day.
3. The blurb, rewritten
Before (first 2 lines)
This book is about Nora, a widow who returns to the small town of Port Ellery to sell her late mother's house. While there she finds a box of letters in the attic and meets Cal, the lighthouse keeper she knew as a girl...
After (first 2 lines)
What if the letters in your mother's attic were written to you?
Nora Hale came back to Port Ellery to sell a house, not to stay. Then she found forty-one letters, a lighthouse that still turned every night, and the man she left behind at nineteen.
The full blurb in the pack is 1,480 characters, 5 short paragraphs, one bold line, and ends with “For readers of Debbie Macomber and Robyn Carr”, in the HTML KDP's description field accepts. Nothing in it is a fact that is not in the book.
4. One page on the 10 books that outrank you
Title, subtitle, price, review count, categories and the keyword phrases their titles share, with the 3 things they do that the sample book does not: a trope in the subtitle, a “clean” category, and a comparison author in the blurb.