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. :) 🙏🏼

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. ^ ^

@MustafaKulle

4 жыл бұрын

Hey there, do you have a website? I'd like to see your work.

@nelsonyiap81

4 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! I'm working toward being a freelance comic illustrator :D

@MakeItHappen337

4 жыл бұрын

I'm looking for an illustrator for this new graphic novel I'm writing. Send me an email @sonnylouid81@gmail.com

@TheVamxie

4 жыл бұрын

Im a inker, colourist, writer, sketcher, muthafucking jack of all trade i need a master to perfect my edge

@mysteryvignesh

4 жыл бұрын

Hey man I am a artist and writer. But I am not a manga illustrator. I have stories can we both work for a book?

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

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

Rachel & Jun D'awwwww. Thank you :DDDD

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

@SHabbIZZLEx

5 жыл бұрын

yea perhaps i need to start thinking like that. Being constantly afraid, pessimistic, worried about my comic not being perfect is sure dragging me longer than i should.... i dunno but i just feel so insecure about my work.... obviously it's not good, but i don't intend to lose something i've put into for so long to disappear when i turn my back, if u know what i mean... :/ ~gulp*

@eltiospike7672

4 жыл бұрын

Berserk: Am i a joke to you?

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.

@normanm5254

7 жыл бұрын

Never before has the white crayon found so much use...

@normanm5254

7 жыл бұрын

***** My comment was a joke in regards to jizz.

@moonlitskylight5740

7 жыл бұрын

I'm curious how much people will enjoy an adult colouring book. Cause I got to admit, it doesn't sound too appealing to me.

@normanm5254

7 жыл бұрын

Hailey Hawes Maybe it's for safe spaces, or perhaps there's people who like to colour their own porn? Make alterations as they see fit and all that. Sort of like that one pic I seen whee the picture is just a dude sitting on a chair looking morose, and text on the page reads "colour the picture in so he's amongst friends" or something like that. The person coloured him in a depressing looking room with a bottle of liquor nearby, I think some empty medicine bottles, and possible a noose hanging from the ceiling. In spite of how dark it is, it's kind of funny.

@meredithmay2120

7 жыл бұрын

I love adult coloring books! They can be relaxing and fun! And I am not sure I would be into "porn" but there are tons a different types...I guess I didn't take his comment as porn...but maybe??

"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. ^^;

@janetpatterson6893

5 жыл бұрын

Wow this was so wonderful and helpful to get me started on my idea… What an inspiration you are and very quick with details thanks thank you thank you

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

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

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

Vincent Lachance Great! Good luck :D

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 ❤️

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

Umaiyl Hussain Good luck :) You can do it!

@dubadu

7 жыл бұрын

Umaiyl Hussain hello Jin. I want to self publish a book too. And since I'm eleven I have to ask permission from my parents.

@HSDreamsprint

7 жыл бұрын

Texan in Tokyo is it possible to do preorders for both digital and physical books

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!

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).

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

Alpha17x Yay! Best of luck finishing your graphic novel series!!!!

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!

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 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!

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

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

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!!

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

@PenandBlade

8 жыл бұрын

+hauntedmoviehouse yeessss agreed

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

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!

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

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

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

This is the info I really needed! Thank you!

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

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

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 ;)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 :)

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

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

This is seriously so helpful! Thank you!!

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

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

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

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!

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

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 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.

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

Goforbad Evilbad Actually the entire reason I decided to self-publish was because I KNEW the rejection from a publishing company would absolutely KILL my creativity/productivity.

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

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

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.

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

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!!!

I am very grateful for all your tips, they're very informative. :)

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.

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

Lydia H Very true! I should have worded that differently. Most other authors I know bought photography, added some text, and BOOM. Cover.

@geeklywhimsical

9 жыл бұрын

And that's great way for some people to make a cover! And there are a lot of stock photo sites just for that. As long as everyone is cool with photos/art being used for a "for profit" purpose, then its all good! :D

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.

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!!

Thanks so much! Best video I've seen on this so far!

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

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 for this video, Grace!

Great informative video! You have an excellent grasp of publishing...and gave me a heads up about the prices, lol

what a great video, thank you so much for the information!!

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

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 :)

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!!!!!

Thank you for this video. It's very informative and encouraging.

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...

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

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

@7Kazi7

4 жыл бұрын

Cool

@7Kazi7

4 жыл бұрын

And lucky

@mysteryvignesh

4 жыл бұрын

How? Can you explain it, some more clearly.

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.

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

Good information I have 3 books out now and use the resources you suggested.

Thanks a lot for this video. Concise and informative.

Thanks a lot. keeping this in my bookmarks until I finish my cartoon book! Thanks

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

thanks for the input... you became an inspiration with my smoothie book!

Cannot wait for the 3rd book!

thank you so much, this help me out so much I am looking to doing this so yeah this helps

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~

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

nm2do Yay! Good luck with publishing your own book! (and good luck with college~)

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

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

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 :)

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

randomcath Thank you for supporting us!! I am glad you found our videos funny!! Yay Good luck with your goal :D

I gave this video one one like. I would give it 10 if that was possible. This is so helpful!! Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge!

so helpful!! thank you

Thank You for the video! So helpful

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

@TexaninTokyo

9 жыл бұрын

Arvid Shirasb Yay! Good luck with your own book :)

Great video! So many helpful tips. Thanks1

this was great. thank you do much for sharing this.

Thanks for uploading this! Very useful :)

This is so nice. Thank you!

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

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!

@gohan12991

6 жыл бұрын

kristen elizabeth I stand with israel lol😂

I just wanted to say Ty for your information .i was scared to move forward now not quit as much