These Gravely Digs of Mine

When I was still writing, I heard a lot of idiotic threats from editors about how "unprofessional behavior", such as quitting magazines that didn't pay and that put out one issue every two years or so, would come back to haunt me. For the most part, the threats about how "nobody's going to deal with you ever again once I let them know how you left me in the lurch" come off as lover's spats, and the editor is much more likely to get laughed at and given wedgies at conventions than the writer. However, this one has probably killed his book career, especially as far as writing Star Trek novels is concerned.