Raydog is a community for independent publishers. For those selling on Amazon KDP or elsewhere, and for coloring books, puzzle books, journals, and high-content.

Whether you've published fifty books or you're still deciding on a pen name, you'll find people here at your stage and a few steps ahead of you.

What goes on inside

Chris runs live calls every week where he brings his latest insights and members bring real problems - a niche that isn't selling, a cover that isn't converting, a launch that didn't land - and we work through them together. Between calls the chat runs all day: people posting their first sale, arguing about trim sizes, sharing what's working in their niche this month.

There are structured courses covering the whole process, from your first upload through to building a catalogue that actually sells, plus tools and templates that cut the busywork out of production.

What makes it different

Most KDP advice is a video you watch once and forget. This is a room full of people actively publishing, where you can ask a question at 11pm and have three answers by morning.

It's also honest. Nobody here will tell you this is passive income or that you'll be making thousands by next month. Publishing on Amazon is a real business and it rewards people who treat it like one. What we can do is make the learning curve much shorter and stop you losing months to mistakes other people have already made.

Who it's for

Complete beginners who want a clear path and someone to ask when they get stuck. Experienced publishers who want better tools, sharper niche research, and people at their level to compare notes with. Anyone who's tried KDP alone, got frustrated, and suspects it would go better with support.

Getting started

Introduce yourself in the welcome channel and say where you're at - someone will point you in the right direction. No pressure to buy anything or post anything; plenty of people read quietly for weeks before they say a word.