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261TurnerLane354 karma

This is self-publishing. You literally could self-publish a book on Amazon in ten minutes. And then there are services which you pay to publish your book, like the one OP used. This form of publishing is as open and easy as it gets. If your GF wants to hold her own book in her hand, she could do it, for a price. Traditional publishing is long and hard and discouraging. When I got my first short story published in an anthology you could go to the store and buy, I cried. It was the end result of a long and hard road. I've recently finished my second full-length novel (the first one I'm trying to sell) and it's been two months of mostly rejections. But that's the game. You have to find that right agent. And then they have to find that right publisher, and so on, and three years from now I might be able to walk into a store and buy my book.

261TurnerLane149 karma

Oh interesting, the page lists First Choice Books as your publisher, which is a pay to print company, and I assumed that's how you got the physical copy you're holding in your picture. Did you make the print copy yourself? It looks very well done if that's the case.

261TurnerLane4 karma

Very cool, what a thoughtful gift.