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Title
THE LAST LIGHT OF LOBEIRA: Mystery and suspense novel (Book 1) BESTSELLER
- ‘BESTSELLER’ cannot go in the title.
- 73 characters of title. It runs on too long.
- The series has its own field.
Subtitle
(empty)
Description
In this book you will find a gripping story that you will not be able to put down from the first page. Irene returns to the village of her childhood to sell her grandmother’s house and discovers some letters that change everything, because the lighthouse keeper who disappeared twenty years ago used to write to her grandmother and the last letter is from after he disappeared, and then she starts investigating with a neighbour and finds out that her family has many secrets and that there are people in the village who do not want the truth to be known, and on top of that a storm arrives that leaves the village cut off. A real page-turner! ★★★★★ “A masterpiece of suspense” — Amazon reader. Today only at £0.99! More information at www.maruxaleiro.example. If you like it, leave your review 😊 Keywords: mystery, suspense, thriller, Galicia, lighthouse, crime novel, secrets
- No websites, emails or phone numbers.
- Reviews do not belong here.
- ‘Today only, £0.99’: no prices or promotions.
- This is a list of keywords.
- No asking for reviews here.
Keywords
- novel
- mystery
- bestseller
- the last light of lobeira
- Maruxa Leiro
- free kindle book
- (empty)
- ‘bestseller, free kindle book’ cannot be a keyword.
- Repeats the title or the author.
- 3 single-word boxes.
Categories
- Fiction
- 1 of 3 categories.
- Too broad.
Book, author and review invented. Both grades come from our book checker, the same one you can use.
Paste your blurb. I will correct it right here.
It counts characters the way KDP does, tags included, separates what is a rule from what is a recommendation and grades as you type.
877 of 4000 · 152 words3123 left
Your description, corrected
In this book you will find a gripping story that you will not be able to put down from the first page. Irene returns to the village of her childhood to sell her grandmother’s house and discovers some letters that change everything, because the lighthouse keeper who disappeared twenty years ago used to write to her grandmother and the last letter is from after he disappeared, and then she starts investigating with a neighbour and finds out that her family has many secrets and that there are people in the village who do not want the truth to be known, and on top of that a storm arrives that leaves the village cut off. A real page-turner! ★★★★★ “A masterpiece of suspense” — Amazon reader. Today only at £0.99! More information at www.maruxaleiro.example. If you like it, leave your review 😊 Keywords: mystery, suspense, thriller, Galicia, lighthouse, crime novel, secrets
Description grade
No websites, emails or phone numbers.
KDP ruleKDP does not accept phone numbers, addresses, emails or URLs in the description.
Reviews do not belong here.
KDP ruleKDP does not accept reviews, quotes or testimonials in the description. Stars either.
No asking for reviews here.
KDP ruleKDP does not accept requests for reviews in the description.
‘Today only, £0.99’: no prices or promotions.
KDP ruleKDP does not accept price, availability, promotions or campaign dates in the description.
Emojis out.
KDP ruleKDP does not accept Unicode emojis in the description.
This is a list of keywords.
KDP ruleKDP does not accept keywords or tags in the description. They have their own seven boxes.
A single block of 152 words. New paragraph.
RecommendationBreak it into short paragraphs: in a listing, a wall of text goes unread.
‘In this book…’ hooks nobody.
RecommendationKDP says it: the first sentence may be the reader’s first impression. Make it stand on its own: open with the conflict or the promise, not by introducing the book.
‘gripping, from the first page, page-turner, masterpiece’? That is for the reader to decide.
RecommendationSwap the praise for a fact from the story. An adjective does not convince; a situation does.
Not a single bold.
RecommendationKDP lets you use bold, italics and lists. A bold first sentence and short paragraphs read better.
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The same description, without changing a word, with the only tags KDP accepts. Paste it into the KDP editor with the ‘Source’ button.
HTML for KDP
<p>In this book you will find a gripping story that you will not be able to put down from the first page. Irene returns to the village of her childhood to sell her grandmother’s house and discovers some letters that change everything, because the lighthouse keeper who disappeared twenty years ago used to write to her grandmother and the last letter is from after he disappeared, and then she starts investigating with a neighbour and finds out that her family has many secrets and that there are people in the village who do not want the truth to be known, and on top of that a storm arrives that leaves the village cut off. A real page-turner! ★★★★★ “A masterpiece of suspense” — Amazon reader. Today only at £0.99! More information at www.maruxaleiro.example. If you like it, leave your review 😊 Keywords: mystery, suspense, thriller, Galicia, lighthouse, crime novel, secrets</p>
- 884 of 4000 characters, tags included
- It had no tags: each paragraph goes in its <p>, each line break is a <br> and lines starting with a dash make a list.
- This only formats. The errors on the report card are still there until you correct them.
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The proofreader’s marks, applied to your listing
A proofreader does not rewrite for fun: they mark what is surplus, what is missing and what is out of place. This is what we mark in a book listing.
Deleatur Delete
What KDP does not accept in the description: reviews, prices, websites, requests for reviews, emojis and lists of keywords. And the praise you give yourself.
Pilcrow New paragraph
Short paragraphs where there was a wall of text, and the little formatting KDP lets you use: bold, italics and lists.
Transpose Change the order
The hook comes first. The first sentence of the description is the first impression; ‘In this book you will find’ is not.
Caret Insert
The empty boxes: seven keywords that do not repeat the title, three categories with their full path and the subtitle a non-fiction book is missing.
Stet Leave as it was
Your title, your voice and your story. We do not touch the book or the cover: we correct the listing.
200characters
Title and subtitle, together
4,000characters
Description, with its tags
7boxes
Keywords
3categories
Shelves in the store
150words
what KDP suggests for the description
A book listing has six subjects
The description weighs the most, but it is not the only one. The checker grades each subject and averages them. This is the report card of the galley proof above.
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Report card
- Book
- The Last Light of Lobeira
- Proofreader
- Lististo
| Subject | Grade | Proofreader’s remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Title and subtitleCounts for 20%‘BESTSELLER’ cannot go in the title. | 3.5 | ‘BESTSELLER’ cannot go in the title. |
| DescriptionCounts for 35%No websites, emails or phone numbers. | 0 | No websites, emails or phone numbers. |
| KeywordsCounts for 20%‘bestseller, free kindle book’ cannot be a keyword. | 0 | ‘bestseller, free kindle book’ cannot be a keyword. |
| CategoriesCounts for 10%1 of 3 categories. | 5 | 1 of 3 categories. |
| Author page and A+Counts for 10%No author page. | N/S | No author page. |
| ReviewsCounts for 5%Few reviews: 8. | 4 | Few reviews: 8. |
Overall grade
F
The overall grade only counts the subjects with data.
What to fix first
- Description. KDP does not accept phone numbers, addresses, emails or URLs in the description.
- Description. KDP does not accept reviews, quotes or testimonials in the description. Stars either.
- Description. KDP does not accept price, availability, promotions or campaign dates in the description.
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Before and after
The same novel, two listings. On the left, the description as it was, with the proofreader’s marks. On the right, the one we deliver, set like a back cover.
In this book you will find a gripping story that you will not be able to put down from the first page. Irene returns to the village of her childhood to sell her grandmother’s house and discovers some letters that change everything, because the lighthouse keeper who disappeared twenty years ago used to write to her grandmother and the last letter is from after he disappeared, and then she starts investigating with a neighbour and finds out that her family has many secrets and that there are people in the village who do not want the truth to be known, and on top of that a storm arrives that leaves the village cut off. A real page-turner! ★★★★★ “A masterpiece of suspense” — Amazon reader. Today only at £0.99! More information at www.maruxaleiro.example. If you like it, leave your review 😊 Keywords: mystery, suspense, thriller, Galicia, lighthouse, crime novel, secrets
Irene goes back to the village where she grew up to sell her grandmother’s house. She only wants to sign, lock the door and be back in Madrid before Monday. But in the attic there is a box of letters the keeper wrote to her grandmother, and the last one is dated three days after he vanished.
With the help of Suso, the only neighbour who still remembers that winter, Irene starts asking questions. And in a village of eighty people, questions have owners.
- An abandoned lighthouse nobody wants to climb.
- A family that has kept quiet for two decades.
- A storm that cuts the village off just as someone decides Irene knows too much.
The Last Light of Lobeira is a slow-paced story with a self-contained ending, for readers who enjoy rural intrigue and family secrets.
The Last Light of Lobeiraby Maruxa Leiro
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My book is already published. Can the listing be changed?
The description, keywords and categories, whenever you like: KDP allows it. The title and subtitle, no: they are locked on publication (for print there is a 72-hour window) and changing them requires a new edition. That is why the guarantee measures the three fields that can always be touched.
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Who writes the listing?
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Do I have to declare to KDP that the listing was written with AI?
KDP asks you to declare AI-generated content in a book: text, images and translations. No page of its help mentions the description in the listing (checked on 13 November 2026). We tell you what is what: we work with AI directed and reviewed by a person, and we put it in writing with every delivery. What has to be declared to KDP is for you to decide and declare, according to its content guidelines.
Do you guarantee I will sell more?
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I would like the listing in another language too.
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