This comes with a bunch of caveats, but, I just published a book today that I was working for about 7 years on.
Caveats:
1: It was a self publishing thing
2: It's just the test print so far that I should get in a little over a week.
3: I have no plans for mass market for several reasons. This will only be enough copies for me a friend and my parents.
But it's still published and I will soon have an actual, printed version of something I wrote. So...yay!