This is suuuuuuuch an amazing tutorial!! :D Thank you so much for making this and sharing it with us! ♥

Hi! I should’ve come back to comment on this video a while ago...This video helped me self publish my book! I watched it obsessively and took notes on it. I self published my book in 2016 and Writer’s Digest named it one of the best self published books in America in 2017. It has a 5 star rating on Amazon, it’s on some shelves in Barnes and Noble, and now I’m on a national book tour for coauthoring another book! Thank you so much for this little video. It was part of my foundation that got me where I am today. :) 🙏🏼

"finished is better than perfect" Haha I've just finished my manuscript for my novel and I agree this is so true.

I'm a freelance manga illustrator. Most of my clients are US-based writers and everytime they ask me about self-publishing, I just show them this video. A real time saver. ^ ^

I just finished my first comic book, and as I was putting the finishing touches on the cover illustration I was like "wait a second, I don't actually know the first thing about how to actually sell this". This video has been an amazing push in the right direction, thank you so much!

"Finished is better than perfect." SAY IT AGAIN FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM.

You are really inspiring me to self publish an adult coloring book. I'm really enjoying these videos of you talking about the publishing process.

"Or you can just buy some art online and turn it into a cover, as well." I feel like this should've been reworded, because simply buying a piece of art doesn't automatically give you commercial rights to reproduce it for a book cover. ^^; Most artists will charge extra/a "commercial fee" for products that will be used for something the buyer will make money off of, like a cover for their book that they will profit from. I'm only mentioning it because it could potentially cause legal issues if someone misunderstands. ^^;

Thank you so much I really wanted to know how to publish books because I want to publish my own manga when I'm older ❤️

I've been working on a graphic novel series for a while This video came a long at a perfect time. I love you (in socially appropriate and entirely platonic ways).

Very helpful. I'm going to be self publishing soon, so this is some much needed info.

I dont,know if you'll ever see this since you guys left youtube but I wanted to say thank you. Its been 4 years but I'm now on my way to self publishing my first book and I'm so thankful for a video like this. Hope your life is going well

Amazon gave me an ISBN for free. I didn't have to pay for it.

"Finished" is better than "perfect" !!! That's wonderful and wise advice (and a needed kick in the butt) to perfectionists and procrastinators like ... ME !!! :)

Oooh this is just fantastic! My 10yr son and daughter have been asking me "Mum, we want to publish our own Comic books" ... so today I finally decided to google "HOW" and found YOU... thank you so much!! My son, "Gypsy" and daughter, "Suga" will def relate to you, we look forward to learning more from you ... xxx Jacqui, Gypsy & Suga on the GC, Australia.

Thank you so much for adding clarity to this process! Finishing up the first manuscript and during that writing process, another book has emerged. You have helped tremendously. Thank you from Texas!

Thank you so much I been sitting on my finished writing book for months with no clue on what to do next and thanks to you my book gone b published very soon

This is very useful! I just started writing a book so I'm going to self-publish it when it's done. Been writing stories since I was little :)

It's kind of neat having Snow White teach us how to self publish :)

Thank you for posting this, I was so confused on how to do anything for my comic. This is really helpful! ^^

Have purchased/read your first two books Grace & I look forward to reading your latest. Keep on keeping on! Thanks for sharing your publishing knowledge too. Who knew? Not meeeee ;)

great video i learned a lot but ... those eyes tho OHMYGOD

This video was incredibly helpful, thank you so much! I am thinking about self publishing my own novel, so I am really glad you talked about this!

This is amazingly helpful. The way you explain every step reassures me that I could have success with self-publishing my comic books. Thank you for this!

I just bought the Kindle version of My Japanese Husband Thinks I'm Crazy . . . and I LOVE it! You are really talented!

Since I´m writing on my own book, this was really awesome! Thanks. I really enjoy reading my digital books and store them at a secured digital storage, so I don´t have to carry hundreds of books with me, each time I need to move. So happy to live in this digital age. :D

Good job Grace! Looking forward to your next book :)

I have many stories inside of me. A few years ago I sat down and pieced one of them together. It turned into a novel. It felt so good writing it that I started a sequel to my novel before getting the first one published. I attempted to get an agent or publishing house to read my first novel but I kept getting rejected. I only my three attempts. I got discouraged and gave up writing. I stopped my second novel maybe a quarter of the way in. I still have many stories in me screaming too get out but writing them would be a waste of time because I'm too lazy to make a big enough effort to convince someone to read them. Don't know why I'm writing this. I guess I just felt like sharing. Good for you in figuring out that writing a book is probably the simplest of the many steps it takes to becoming a true author.

WOW. Thank you so much for this video. I have recently set up a twitter account, and written a book. I had no idea how I was going to get the book published or even printed! This video has really helped. Thank you again!!

this was soooo interestning to listen to! I make comics myself, and REALY wanna be able to print them up soon, and I think what you just mentioned seems realy interesting! so thank you so so much! :D

You are very helpful and honest. I was a little lost when it came to where to self publish but this video has helped me a bunch. I appreciate your time, thank you.

this is exactly what i need! thanks so much for the helpful info, hopefully i will have my graphic novel published soon :) seriously you're a lifesaver, and im subscribed! thankyou

After watching like gazillions of youtube videos, this I believe is to be my very first comment. Congratulations, you should feel proud. You are adorable and you have been so helpful. I identify with your personality a lot and I really appreciate your videos because most videos try to be helpful but they either give you like 12 how to's that you are like...well duh! and just wasted 12 minutes of your life for OR they make it super complex or they are downright boring. ;) Thank you for being none of those things. I know you can't please everyone, but you definitely pleased me!

One of my new favorite channels! Glad I found you.

no joke u r legit accomplished for being so young; it's so hard for an artist, either graphic or literary, to make a living following their creative expression and fulfillment and you have already reached it. plus you are also an entrepreneur... u r so blessed :)

Oh my word! I've been working on a kid's illustration book and I've been putting off actually just finishing it because I had no idea what to do or how to go about it! Thank you so much for this video! I finally feel like this is doable! xx

Thank you for this video so much! I'm getting ready in the next few years to publish my comic so this was a big help!

That's quite informative, thank you. Can't wait for Book No. 3 :)

this was really informative! writing and drawing had been a childhood passion of mine, but i gave up on them years ago because i don't think i'm good enough at them to make anything of it. if i ever decide to get back into it and make something of my interests though, this video will definitely help a lot~

They wanted to buy your proofs because they think they'll be worth loads of money later...quite a compliment! :)

Thanks for this! I'm actually hoping to publish my first book within the next year, so this is great to have.

Okay so I've been working on a book for three years now and I'm currently in my senior year of high school. Every one I've showed it to said they like it but I'm super nervous. I feel like my heart is in my stomach. I nearly cry every time I think about it. I'm almost completely independent, save for one friend helping me edit and my great art teacher helping with the cover design. I'm raising money to buy the ISBN but it's super hard. But I want to publish this book because I want people to realize they aren't alone, I want them to see that you should go through your life happily cause you only have one chance at life. You' do helped me a lot and I'm so glad you made this video. Thank you so much!! And I hope you sell a lot more books.

Hopefully people see this. I saw a lot of comments about getting copyrights and just want everyone to know that, in the USA at least, there is like a "creator's copyright" where as soon as you make something, it's yours. Like if you start uploading to anything, blog or KZfaq or whatever, that dates it and cannot be change, it can act as a copyright. I had a friend in the publishing business who told me to just stick everything into a big envelope and mail it to myself, and the post office would stamp a date on it and it would be legit. Just make sure you keep it sealed if you do it that way.

I'm a university student planning on making a comic for my senior year, one of the biggest worries I had was how I was gonna get this printed to really finish off the whole project nicely instead of having files sit on my computer for god knows how long, and this is the most helpful video I found on the subject!! I don't know how I would have survived without this help thank you so much!!!

Thank you so much Grace. I really appreciate all your advice

I shared this video with a group of comic book creators in a Discord server. Really good stuff. I did amend with a comment that Create Space is gone and replaced with Kindle/Direct Publishing. Thanks for making this video.

Hi, I used to watch this video ALL THE TIME! Hope you and your husband are doing well!

This is the info I really needed! Thank you!

Wow. I'm .... shocked... at how informative and well put together this video was. I hope you don't take that the wrong way. I've watched several videos on self publishing before stumbling onto this one and they were all rubbish. You did an amazing job!

Omigosh!! I'm so happy I found this video TToTT Thank you so much!!

The hardest part is doing is perfoming in an stand or school, library with book clubs too others. Theres awkwardness but like always there will be the most respect for all the peoples there. Peoples are amazed by any persons creations. And having their passion taken out in public is inspiring also takes courage.

This video was really helpful! I'm wanting to self publish my comics but wasn't sure even where to begin. Thanks for all the great advice!!

i simply love your energy. you are an inspiration. i will self publish my second book. my first book was The Last Hustle. This second will be done by me. Saw your video and now we are firmly ready to go forth. Thanks

Your editing and quality of your videos improved! Great job!

This is amazingly helpful! thanks so much for making it and helping other young authors.

Cannot wait for the 3rd book!

Thank you so much this answered every question I’ve had about publishing. Thank you

Thank you so much. Im currently in the process of working on my book, its scary but I'm excited!

Thanks for making this vid! This video helped me get my first book out so thanks again!!

Thank you for your insights. You've covered tips within topics that other professional self-published authors didn't include. Your video is well organized and I found it easy to follow!

It's cool that your teaching people how to go about self publishing a book. I tried that for a bit but discovered that I was not suited very well to self published. We submitted our horror comic, "Bleen", to various publishers and eventually got picked up by Caliber Comics who thus far have been doing a pretty good job on the publishing front for Bleen. It's a 94 page black and white horror graphic novel. It takes place in a sanitarium and has some strange things that happen because of bananas. You should check it out I think you'd like it. Bleen the Graphic Novel is available for purchase on amazon and comixology.

Thank you so much for this information Grace! You just made my day. You're adorable and so good at conveying information. I wish you continued success.

had to pause vid and sketch your hair style, its perfect for one of my characters (hope you dont mind) also very helpful vid.

Some good advice, I've always wondered how self-publishing works. :) The only thing I wanted to comment on is that you say "You could buy some art online & use that for a cover". As an artist, yes, you can do that, but its very important to let the artist know what your intended use of their art is and get their full permission before using anything.

This is so informative! Thank you for laying out all these details.

This is seriously so helpful! Thank you!!

Amazing tips

This is very great since I am wanting to publish a book myself and this is a great walk through of the process (: Thank you Grace. When college isn't robbing me of my money, I plan on buying both your books ^^ Can't wait~

I'll be buying your books to support you! I've discovered your channel perhaps two or three months ago and I really like your videos! Both you and your husband are super fun to watch! And this video is super inspiring! For someone who was a 9-6 job I like to believe that perhaps one day I can be self employed. Perhaps not drawing though :)

This was very helpful, I want to publish my own graphic novels in the future and this really gave me a clear gist, thank you!!

Right now I am in the process of writing my first book. I have not even got to this step yet but I think the information you provided is great. thanks

I didn't know covers were such a big deal! I do them all the time... Ahh, but I forget not everybody knows photoshop. This was an awesome video for a fairly complicated thing! Thanks :) Have you heard of Spaceman Project crowdfunding? (They print and distribute the book for you if it gets crowdfunded) -- Would you recommend something like that or self publishing your way for somebody who doesn't have much of an audience to pitch the finished comic to initially?

Nice work Grace. My wife is considering self - publishing after her first book was traditional. Thanks for the videos, best wishes!

really well done. and you make it much more approachable and understandable. I'm motivated to give it a try now. Thanks!

Awesome and straightforward! Keep on truckin' with your stuff.

Wow, this vlog has been put in the learning tending tab in KZfaq UK. Congratulations 😊😊

Love the step by step- this is great, thank you!

Awesome post! Thanks. Going to do this for my book. Highly helpful!

Thank you so much for making this video, I'm working on a graphic novel and was wondering what steps to take when i finish, this helps a lot.

Thanks so much for sharing that info! It makes it seem much less daunting to self-publish.

These vids only make me feel more confident and excited. I already have my second book going along well, over 150 pages if memory serves but I hope to bust through 200 but I really won't know when I'll get to a point where I'm like "ok, this seems pretty much finished" which was a nice feeling when it happened with the first book (which is not edited nor of course published yet). I can't really anticipate WHEN that moment comes, I just continue to write as ideas come, and then it seems I just get to a point where I think it's a good spot to end on. I REALLY enjoy writing, in fact if my first book DOESN'T sell well I genuinely think I'll continue to write. I just find it to be incredibly fun, and so far my moments of writer's block have been brief, few, and far between. Like I said in a comment in another video; over 190 pages and over 77,000 words in less than 5 days. Hell yeah! I only just learned within the past month about that whole 'write a book in November' thing that I can't remember the proper name of, but I think I'll be able to participate in that without much difficulty. I'll probably go for something a bit more tame though than what I'm working on now. It is RAUNCHY!... and I love it... I really do think that Kickstarter is my best bet for starting things off because I'll clearly be needing some funding, though I don't know precisely how much yet. I figure I'll probably do things like $1 donations will get them the first few pages to get a taste of what it's like so that hopefully they can see if they'll like the writing style or not so as to feel more comfortable in giving higher amounts. $10 will give them... either the first few chapters or an entire digital copy of the book, I haven't decided yet. I imagine most writers have that haunting suspicion that what they're making might seem AWESOME to themselves, but fear that EVERYONE ELSE will think it's utter crap. Anyways, $20 or $25 (depending on how much the physical copies will cost) will earn the backer a physical copy. $50 will probably earn them a physical copy of the first book plus a digital copy of the second once it's finished (it's already probably 75% finished). $100 will earn physical copies of both along with a personal email of thanks as well as the chance to offer ideas for events/characters/lines which I will give much consideration to and there can even be some back-and-forth conversation about it. That's probably where it will end... I don't want to seem greedy. If I offer an option for higher than $100, I dare say it'll include a guarantee that an event/character/line of theirs will be included in the event of a third book, but of course it must be agreed between both of us. It's unlikely that I'll just kill of a main/major character or up and make him do something COMPLETELY out of character purely on request. I want to remain anonymous, even using a false name, so signatures/face time/audio calls/meet-ups won't be a thing, as much as they would deserve it if people actually end up giving me over $100 if I even make it an option... I'm very new to Kickstarter and these are all just spitballed ideas. My guess is I'll go for $2000 or $4000... on the off chance that I end up getting a lot more than my goal, does that money go through as well? I don't know. I assume so. I mean, it'd be a piss-off for those lucky people who just asked for $10,000-20,000 but ended up gaining LOTS of backers that resulted in over $100,000, only to end up being stuck with the amount they asked for! Anyways, everything is still up in the air, and though I'm confident and excited, there's always that devil on my shoulder whispering in my ear that this will all crash and burn. Everyone will hate the book, nobody will back it after reading just a few pages, what you THINK are cool ideas/descriptive visuals/interesting twists are actually all poorly done, and so on and so forth. Still, it's something that I very much enjoyed writing, and the shoulder-devil's mutterings aside I DO think there's a market or niche of people that would enjoy the content, so I want to at least take a crack at it. What was that cool inspirational poster I read back in high school?... "Shoot for the Moon, and even if you miss, you'll land amongst the stars!" Or... you know... I pull an Apollo 13 and end up bring sling shotted around to crash right back into Earth... that's an option too...

I love you--SO THANKFUL YOU EXIST!--just finishing up writing and drawing my sex-comedy novella while spending a couple of years on developing my business style, and my thinking is so much like yours...finished IS perfect! You've cured my last-minute anxiety attacks, and renewed my will to live. I promise to start buying your books before this month is up--all my best!

So glad I found this video..i am working on my first Graphic novel now and was looking at buying about 1000 copies, this is so much better. never even heard of print on demand, so thanks from one texan to another!!!!!

keep up the good work its been years but i still keep shearing your video there is great information you've provided in it easy to understand and follow ill one day get a few of your books for my son

Thank you. Just loved your delivery. I self-published and you are right when 'they' say it's not a 'real' book. I ignore them of course and continue to have fun writing. I just need a good illustrator.

I want to move to Japan and create my very own manga one day! Thank you so much for the tips, Grace!

I love ur and Rachel's vids! And thank u for uploading this ! Ur the best

I rarely comment on youtube but wanted to say that this was very well presented and informative. Thanks

Thank you for posting awesome videos!!! I Love all your videos!! Keep making them! and you guys are so adorable together!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ And your books are amazing!! Keep them coming!!!

Book 3's cover looks lovely!

Thank you so much, I'm almost done with my first book I started when I was 16, it's been a labor of love but worth so much, I think I will take your advise and self publish and take the plunge to get it out there, sorry if my comment is a little long

High gratitude for this information and friendly, concise conveyance with specific details which had thus far eluded in other research ^^;

I am a writer, currently finishing my first novel and working on two more, does the publishing work for novels as well as comic books?

Thank you for this! I’m currently making a comic book, and now I see that the amount that the author sells it for, is nothing compared to the amount of money they invest in making the book

I've been wondering on how to publish my book that I've been making and this helped so much!!!

Thank you so much for sharing this information, There was a ton that I as a writer did not even know about, so it was truly helpful. On another note living in Denmark and I prefer Japanese food, i must love their dishes 😊 again thank you, and i will surely be back watching. Ps your cartoons are so cool !

You have such a healthy glow in this video and I love your eyes and smile :) Also helpful video

Informitive, to the point, entertaining.... thank you for kicking ass on this video.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!! XD This is incredibly helpful for me. :)

Thank you so much for this video, Grace!