what are people using to test cover design ty

I'm in a bit of a pickle, I have a draft manuscript and I would like to format and polish it. I looked at Canva but it has a pdf export page limit and people say it's more a graphics app than text. Then there's Atticus which looks brilliant, it's a one off £176 as I speak but before I buy can I ask if there's anything else, a better method perhaps. Any replies will be gratefully received and much appreciated, thank you. PS. I'm trying to avoid Fiverr due to a recent experience which was less than adequate.

Hi everyone, I'd really appreciate some insight on how you manage your ARC launches. I have a fixed launch date, but new ARC readers continue joining throughout the campaign. The closer it gets to launch, the less time they have to read the book and leave a review. A few questions: - How long do you typically run your ARC campaign? - How many days or weeks before launch do you start recruiting? - Do you close the ARC campaign before launch? If so, how long before? - How much time do you give ARC readers to finish the book? - Do you wait for feedback before publishing, or stick to your launch date regardless? - Roughly what percentage of your reviews come in during launch week versus afterwards? So many questions! Apologies for that, but hopefully this might be of interest to others also. I'd love to hear what has worked best for you. Thanks!

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us yesterday! It was a great call, and based on the feedback, I think it really helped many people! You can now watch the recording of the call here or in the Classroom tab. Here’s the workbook from the call so you can continue working through it even now: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O-FFzkE1XShigXLkuphYICurFqgT9QqJbW19dhoGnoo/copy 🔗 And here are the other two links we mentioned during the call: 🎯 Driven Publishers Elite 2-day Mastermind Event in Miami: https://drivenpublishers.com/dpe-miami-2026 ✍🏼 PublishFlow (save 10% with code “Flow”): https://publishflow.ai/?pfcoupon=Flow10 I’m already looking forward to the next call with you all—thank you for participating so actively!

The call today was one of the best I've attended in a while. Ty for sharing ideas and strategies, it has given me much to think about. I do have a question = kdp restricts no of pen names. When creating different brands how do you address this. I have a health wellness pen name and one for low content stuff,but if i branched out of health wellness for example I can't put high content books in with low content or using your example piano books in under health pen name.