Volume 2 is now available!!

Umi & Iris - Volume 2 is FINALLY here!!

2 years of work
192 pages
908 panels

More laughs, more emotions, and more of Umi and Iris (I hope you’ll love them even more)!

Available now in E-book and Paperback: https://linktr.ee/umiandiris

Thank you so much for supporting me on this difficult journey! Your reviews, messages, and fan art after Volume 1 made me so happy and were a huge motivation to keep pushing!

(little rant below!)

The release of Volume 2 should have been announced more than a month ago but I struggled making the paperback version available. Here’s some explanation if you’re curious:

Since Amazon doesn’t print right-to-left books unless they’re written in Japanese (weird rule), I have to work with another printing company that handles production and then submits the books to Amazon. The problem is that, for no clear reason, Amazon keeps rejecting the request to list my book on their site (even though Volume 1 and plenty of other people’s books were accepted).

And even once the paperback is on Amazon, only people living in the US will be able to order it. For some reason, my printing company limits availability to the country of the marketplace (Amazon US only ships within the US, Amazon FR only within France...). That means anyone outside the US who wants a physical copy has to order it through another retailer (The Great British Bookshop).

Also, my printer has problems with it’s own website and can’t manage to change the cover preview on the product page, so it shows the back cover instead of the front!

As you can see, the process is unnecessarily complicated. I’d probably be making far more sales if everything could just be set up on a single platform with international shipping. And to think that all of this comes down to one stupid rule (Amazon refusing to print right-to-left books in English) it’s honestly pretty frustrating :)