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Yeah, there is some self promotion in MGC.  Isn't self-promotion every writer's responsibility?

Charles, Freer also notes that L'Amour maintained a single PoV, rigourously.  This argues against lack of craftsmanship, and for the idea that L'Amour had a different sense of what is done well and what is done ill.

I can enjoy Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, and have enjoyed it immensely.  I also enjoy the music from Les Miserable.  It's not the same craftsmanship and art as Beethoven, and the composer made a big change of technique, building the whole work around the interval of the fourth instead of the fifth.  The musical fate of that interval tracks the fate of the protagonist.

That more people rather than fewer can enjoy a thing, and will pay for it (giving up the fruits of their labor in trade for it) should not be taken to mean that the thing is a poorer piece of work.  The Grosse Fuge is a greater work than the score for Les Mis, but this is in spite of its difficulty, not because of it.

So dey ain't no dry bones?  Whooo, I didn't see that, no I didn't.

Troll's still there and he don't care, with the bone that he boned from its owner.

Worldbuilding, guest article on Sarah Hoyt's blog.

So those hundreds of notes are collected (mostly; new ones arrive daily) but not yet organized.  Notes I have, up the wazoo.  In fact, I'm gonna need a new wazoo soon.

But I may be near the point of progress on Maurand, Day Two.

You shouldn't be a techie.  You should be a manager.  Managers get up early so they can boss us around.  Techies stay late trying to figure out how to do what the bosses want--and they prefer to work after the bosses go home because the bosses like nothing more than to keep the techies tied up in meetings stroking their nefarious egos.  /2.718... .  (That denominator is the limit [as n goes to zero] of the nth root of ( 1 + n ).  A most wonderful number.)

I hope things get better, Dags ... and please don't treat his as pressure--unless that helps!

Oh, maybe you can have Petra tell Jaylene what Jaylene needs to know about emptying the souls that give strength to the Horror, either the direct fact or something Jaylene can figure it out from.  That would mean beginning the next chapter within the Lance.

How about something that disturbs the physics that your ships depend on for propulsion or communication?  Maybe disturb their internal artificial gravity?  Trigger infrasonics or infrasonic-modulated internal light displays inside a ship before boarding so the defenders are all busy tossing their cookies?

In Craig Shaw Gardiner's =Ebenezum= series, the eponymous mage runs afoul of a rhyming demon named Guxx Unfafaddo, who finds a spell that makes Ebenezum allergic to his own magic.  After a volume or two, Ebenezum returns the favor and the rhyming demon is reduced to blank verse.  Whenever a rhyme slips in, the magic of Guxx Unfafaddo goes rhyming-demon haywire.  That's the brobdingnagian sort of wire that gets tangled in a brobdingnagian sort of hay-baler.

The likely link between the Brat (Naughty, Naughty Girl) that Airen indulges in and the irregular home in which she grew up had me wondering whether you crafted that link deliberately.

I pick the one where the Mar shows up and Tazar and Alda execute Plan 4

A plan, I have, to Easter-egg one of the most outrageous and iconic conspiracy theories of the age.  I could tell you what it is, but if the conspiritheorists are right you wouldn't be able to read ..... anyway.  And not all of it will come in Book 2.

Actually, it's from Steelman (Green).