Heya @medmusa. I saw your comment so I figured I'd update the blog. :D I'm giving away my name here, but it's whatevs I guess. So the first picture is the finished version that ended up getting published as the cover for the book. After a few years though, I figured I'd need to update some sections of the book (since I'm writing the second in the series now), and so I wanted something a bit more polished for the new cover when I re-publish it. The guy who did the artwork here is extremely talented... I gave him a copy of the book, asked him to read it and come up with some ideas for a cover... This was one of them and I knew immediately that it was the one.
I hope you like them! :D