Me and Wcross tried a bunch of different compositions to refine my initial cover idea, and we went with this, which was the forth idea I pitched. Glad we went through so many different ideas, since this one is by far the best.
Also you can see here the cover logo and design I had to pay for. Ignore the white text. I'm gonna fix that. Kinda took a decent chunk of money to get it made, but it's reusable for different volumes. Worried about the budget for more pictures, but we'll see how it goes.