The same girl, the same composition, but one comment is "Such a cute illustration. I love it" and another is "Yet another AI generation. 1 star." But how do you make a decision: will the illustration help or will it tank your book? The rule is simple: ask yourself, how much would it really cost you to commission the illustration you want to use to a real artist? If you can afford a human illustration in the style you choose, it’s a good illustration. If the illustrations generated by the LLM would cost you a small fortune, your readers will probably feel the same, and you will read a lot of "AI" comments below your book. I hope this will be helpful.

I am positively surprised at how fast Amazon US approved the last two updates of my books. It took ten minutes or so. Did this change happen in other markets?

I hope the data in the screenshot answers this question well enough. This is just the 7th day of the campaign, and the conversion rate is more than 19%. Hear me correctly: I do not mean to say that reviews are not important. Quite the opposite, I am sure reviews are essential for success. But do not let the absence of reviews (yet) stop you from actively promoting your book. And next, to get a very good deal for the BookVillage review platform, use the link https://bookvillage.pub/?via=guild Have you had experience with good book sales without reviews, or with a minimal number of them?

This weekend, I hope to meet some of you at the London Mastermind. Last week was pretty slow for me because of Easter preparations, and this week is shorter due to travel preparations. Nevertheless, it was interesting to review the results of March. For the first time in my experience, a book published at the start of a month earned $200 by the end of that same month. It is a book in a very limited niche, not one with high potential, but it is interesting to see how powerful series can be. Every new book starts faster than previous one. I hope I will have a lot of interesting ideas to share after the mastermind. How is your week going? Will you be in London this weekend?

To be honest, for a moment I felt uneasy. I opened my account with some tension... Fortunately, everything is fine; the account is okay. In regional markets, everything is OK, but in the U.S., it's dogs.