Writer's Fallout Shelter

Also, if she just wants her work in print as if it's a book, she could just find a printing company directly and have them handle it without going to a middle-man self-publishing company. The self-publishing company still needs to send everything to a printers anyway, so going directly there first cuts out extra costs and hassle.

This is what I did for my Independent Literary Publishing course. We had to print our own chapbooks, be they for poetry or fiction. If you Google Search printing companies, you can just submit to the company and they'll bill you for the type of cover, the type of binding, and the type of paper. It's a lot cheaper than you may expect. Typically, saddle-stitch (like thread or just a few staples along the spine) is cheaper than perfect binding (the glue we typically encounter in paperback books).