Dear Someone Else’s Dad, I’m a junior editor working for a large publishing house. I’ve been assigned to work with an author whose upcoming book we anticipate will be a strong seller, so we are hoping to release it at a very specific time to maximize sales. The author, however, misses every deadline we have given him, which in turn, has upset the entire production schedule, and will ultimately delay the release date. He mostly ignores my emails and texts (“Hi- just checking