Pull Quotes
Pull-quote image cards in your book's own typography
How passages are surfaced
Open the Marketing section of the sidebar and click Pull Quotes. Bookshaper automatically surfaces candidate passages from your manuscript so you don't have to scroll back through chapters hunting for quotable lines. Candidates come from several sources, each labelled in the list:
Candidates are filtered to a clean pull-quote length — roughly 6 to 25 words for square and landscape cards, longer for tall portrait formats. Passages outside that window are left out so a card never tries to carry a full paragraph.
- Your opening line — the first sentence of the manuscript, the marquee first-line quote, ranked at the top of the auto-surfaced pool.
- Chapter openers — the first sentence of each chapter, usually written as a hook. (Generic scene openers are skipped — they tend to be orienting lines that don't stand alone.)
- Scene closers — the last sentence of each scene, where prose tends to land its strongest beat.
- Chapter closers — the closing line of the final scene in a chapter, weighted higher because chapter endings carry extra punch.
- High-tension beats — sentences drawn from scenes your chapter analysis flagged as high-tension, the moments most likely to intrigue a reader.
- Marked passages — any line you flagged yourself in the editor (see the next section). These always rank at the top.
Marking your own passages
You don't have to wait for a line to be surfaced. While writing or revising, select any passage in the editor, right-click, and choose Mark as Quote Candidate. The line is saved with that scene and appears at the top of the Pull Quotes list, tagged Marked, the next time you open the view.
Marked passages are saved with your project, so they persist across sessions. They bypass the length filter and the spoiler guard — if you chose it deliberately, Bookshaper trusts you.
The spoiler guard
Auto-surfacing high-tension beats means the tool will happily find your climax — which is the last thing you want to post as a teaser. The spoiler guard, on by default, excludes passages drawn from the final stretch of the manuscript so you don't shop the ending.
The default excludes the last 15% of the book; the slider lets you tighten or loosen that, and you can switch the guard off entirely. Passages you marked yourself are never affected — the guard only governs auto-surfaced candidates.