/lit/ - Literature

Is there any reason why a publisher wouldn't let me design my own cover art?

It's a very big deal for me, and I keep hearing that its basically the norm for the publishers to fuck writers over in this case. My education is in the audiovisual field (which includes media as a whole, marketing, graphic design etc etc) so one would think that I can make one myself, right?

Pic obviously unrelated, apart from being cool artwork