And this highlights the importance of being nice to not only your editor, but your editor's assistant, the intern, and the person who answers the phone. Not only are these folks not paid NEARLY enough to put up with your attitude, writers, they might be the next ones looking at your bubble-wrapped and duct-taped baby of a manuscript and remembering you were the idiot who was mean.

Also.

It's generally a good idea to be nice to people unless they are not nice to you.

--M