J.D.
Congrats on getting this far!!
A friend of mine that is a writer and artist just recently self published her books. She also did her own cover art for the books. They are on Amazon/Kindle and just recently made it to Barnes and Noble. She has also been able to get her book into local bookstores. She is fortunate to live in Austin, TX where there still are local bookstores. She has done a lot of her own marketing and publicized her book signings at these stores and libraries in the area. It has been a lot of work for her, but she got impatient on waiting for someone else to publish her books.