Not to drag this into morbidity, but the guy who ran the game store when I was a kid was Kim Eastland. He did a bit of this and that, but the first book I had of his was the Star Frontiers expansion, Zebulon's Guide to Free Space. He did a couple of other things (some articles for Dragon, some Gamma World stuff), but his vision was what betrayed him. Granted, this was in the 80s, before computers really came into their own, or Lasik came along, for that matter. Anyway, the damage was done. To the best of my ability to tell, he hasn't written anything for publication, since. He's part owner of a mystery/dinner theater, so he's still expressing his creative side, but I've always felt for the guy.
To bring it back on topic, I've always had a fondness for Mr. David, creatively. I'm glad he's getting better. (You know. Should anyone have a more direct line to him than Twitter.)