This is an open invitation to talk about your book. 👉 If you already have a book published, feel free to share about the book. 🔗 Links are OK. 👉 If you're working on a book, share about what you're working on and where you're at in the process.

Hope its ok to ask this here, if not pls let me know. i just published my first coloring book, my friend ordered it and her 12yr old autistic grandchild looked at the pages and got upset saying its ai, thats stealing from artists, she picked out some minor flaws i hadnt seen or anyone checking it, aid that detail in some areas pointed to ai, ..i unpublished it, i'm now having chat go through again and report any findings, but i'm wary of republishing it. i'm assuming most people here are getting chat etc to create the drawings, how do you manage consistency of style (i am using the prompt from coloring bk challenge) and do you redo things with another tool? i struggle with canva so havent done that. i've written 3 books (self written not ai)and dont want this to affect those book sales. ..sorry for the long post but i'm a bit stumped at the moment

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