/lit/ - Literature

About five or six months ago I turned down getting published because they wanted full creative control of the cover [I already had my friend's painting picked out] and I couldn't stand the thought of my work not looking the way that it was meant to.

Am I a moron or did I make the right call? I am still writing poetry but I would be lying if I said I didn't find the entire ordeal devastatingly demoralising. Poetrybros, what would you have done?