diff --git a/crates/napi/src/error.rs b/crates/napi/src/error.rs
index 8228cce8..c530e925 100644
--- a/crates/napi/src/error.rs
+++ b/crates/napi/src/error.rs
@@ -95,10 +95,10 @@ impl Error {
     }
   }
 
-  pub fn from_reason(reason: String) -> Self {
+  pub fn from_reason<T: Into<String>>(reason: T) -> Self {
     Error {
       status: Status::GenericFailure,
-      reason,
+      reason: reason.into(),
       #[cfg(all(feature = "tokio_rt", feature = "napi4"))]
       maybe_raw: ptr::null_mut(),
     }
diff --git a/examples/napi-compat-mode/src/task.rs b/examples/napi-compat-mode/src/task.rs
index 56d2352e..31b7ba79 100644
--- a/examples/napi-compat-mode/src/task.rs
+++ b/examples/napi-compat-mode/src/task.rs
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ impl Task for CountBufferLength {
 
   fn compute(&mut self) -> Result<Self::Output> {
     if self.data.len() == 10 {
-      return Err(Error::from_reason("len can't be 5".to_string()));
+      return Err(Error::from_reason("len can't be 5"));
     }
     Ok(self.data.len())
   }