diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 2a0d1fd..a79b491 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ setup(
     name='Milla',
     version='0.1.2',
     description='Lightweight WSGI framework for web applications',
+    long_description='''\
+Milla is a simple WSGI framework for Python web applications. It is mostly
+an exercise to familiarize myself with WSGI, but may evolve into a framework
+I use for web applications in the future.
+''',
     author='Dustin C. Hatch',
     author_email='admiralnemo@gmail.com',
     url='http://bitbucket.org/AdmiralNemo/milla',