Media

Articles and Guest Posts

Punching Up Your Action Thriller, for The Strand Magazine.
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Literary Sensei: On Marc Olden, prolific writer of the Narc and Black Samurai series and a student of martial arts, for Criminal Element.
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Racing to Get Words on the Page: Writing Sprint Exercises, for Career Authors.
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Top Ten Thieves in Pop Culture, for The Strand Magazine.
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Bad Fathers and the Readers Who Love Them, for CrimeReads.
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Shaw’s Seattle: Exploring the Emerald City’s Hidden Thrills, for Criminal Element.
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Exploring the Ghost Towns of Central Oregon: A Father and Daughter’s Journey Through Abandoned America, a featured guest article for CrimeReads.
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The Ranger’s Path: Van Shaw and Becoming an Army Ranger, for SHOTS Magazine in the UK.
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Into the Badlands: On traveling through central Oregon for fun and location scouting for Mercy River, in the UK’s famed Metro News.
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Growing up aboard boats with Travis McGee for company, at The Strand Magazine.
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With Jungle Red Writers, on writing the second book in a series.
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Lawless in Seattle: with SHOTS Magazine in the UK, about creating fictional crime in a real place.
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“Friends with Words,” for MysteryPeople, talking about reading other authors (or not) while you’re plugging away on a first draft.
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About the writing of Hard Cold Winter, with the excellent UK blog Crime Time, home to all things criminal across the pond.
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My Left Coast Crime. On attending the premier west coast mystery event, and not staining the Guest of Honor’s shoes.
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Every Summer has a Story: Some of my favorite recent reads, for Poisoned Pen Bookstore.
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Anthony and Macavity nominees talking about their favorite first novels for SleuthSayers.
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How It Happened: The Big Thrill‘s series of writers telling their stories of breaking into the biz.
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With Fresh Fiction, on writing a character raised with a decidedly skewed set of values.
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Drinks with Reads! Mysterious Playground asks what my main character would imbibe.
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Why I write about my home town of Seattle, at The Crime Warp.
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Lead Me Not Into Procrastination (or, How I Became a Better Writer Using Masochism), at Liz Barnsley’s wonderful blog Liz Loves Books.
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With SHOTS Magazine UK, talking about life as a (fictional) juvenile criminal.
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Upending the hero’s moral compass, at literary magazine Upcoming4.me.
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Telling Raven Crime Reads why I write about crime. It may not pay much yet, but there are other rewards.
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In Big Issue North, on heroines and bedtime stories for their Off the Shelf column.
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In the UK magazine ShortList, naming four standout examples of modern noir.
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Glen is a ThrillerFest Success Story!
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Print Interviews

A second interview with The Big Thrill, on the launch of A Dangerous Breed.
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Featured in The Big Thrill, the magazine of International Thriller Writers.
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At Jungle Red Writers, for Pub Date of Every Day Above Ground.
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On Stodginess and Scooby Doo: Friend and superb mystery author M.P. Cooley interviewed me for Los Angeles Review of Books.
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An interview with the lovely Lesa Holstine of Lesa’s Book Critiques, and how Dungeons & Dragons may have made me an author.
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Talking to Mark Rubenstein at Huffington Post, including how alike Van Shaw and I might be (and how much is simple wish fulfillment).
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With my friends at My Bookish Ways, with shout-outs to some of the great books I’ve been reading lately (and the flip side: What will make me toss a book across the room…).
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A guest interview at SleuthSayers with MWA Northwest chapter president Brian Thornton.
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On home turf with The Big Thrill, ITW’s online magazine of all things pulse-pounding.
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Double scoop from Thriller Books Journal—an interview with Nicola Mira and a review of HCW.
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With Jathan & Heather, on getting started and the writing process.
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What TV do I watch when there’s time? (oh precious beloved TV time…) Part of my chat with Omnimystery.
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One of my favorite UK blogs, Liz Loves Books, with the wonderful Liz Barnsley.
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Musing on Muses: Author D.J. Adamson is my gracious host in the April 2016 issue of her very popular blog Le Coeur de l’Artiste.
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With my fellow LA author and buddy S.W. Lauden, at his blog Bad Citizen Corporation.
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Chatting about craft with B. Lynn Goodwin at Writer Advice.
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At This is Writing, a superior blog for writing tips, publishing advice, and of course outstanding interviews (ahem).
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My first guest shot! Interviewed by the amazing Deborah Crombie at Jungle Red Writers.
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The home turf advantage: an in-depth interview with Ian Walkley for ITW’s The Big Thrill online magazine.
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If I could experience one book again for the first time… and other great questions in this Q&A with My Bookish Ways.
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Interviewed by Elise Cooper at Suspense Magazine, one of the bibles for the writing community.
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Terry Ambrose is my host at his terrific writer’s blog.
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Who knows mysteries? MysteryPeople! They also know how to ask the tough questions.
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Television, Podcast, and Radio Interviews

Confessions on House of Mystery Radio on NBC.
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A fast and fun interview on writing craft (and how lowered expectations can work magic for YOU!) on Author2Author, with Bill Kenower on Blog Talk Radio.
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Chatting with Authors, with hosts Janet Elizabeth Lynn and Will Zeilinger.
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Glen on New Day NW with host Margaret Larson.
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Video interview at Poisoned Pen with Brad Parks and Barbara Peters.
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Talking writing craft with the amazing author and teacher Steven James, for his show The Story Blender on Suspense Radio.
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Fun conversations with one of the best interviewers in the podcast game, Hank Garner on Author Stories:
Episode 203 Episode 588 Episode 920 Episode 1138

Kendall & Cooper Talk Mysteries… with me.
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Visiting CrimeCorner with friend and fellow author Matt Coyle.
On Every Day Above Ground On Mercy River

On the acclaimed Speaking of Mysteries podcast hosted by Nancie Clare.
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Live on KKNW AM with Vicki St. Clair on Conversations Live in my hometown of Seattle.
On Hard Cold Winter On Every Day Above Ground On Mercy River On A Dangerous Breed

With Writer Types at Noir at the Bar L.A.
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Joining Peter Solomon for very early coffee on 94WIP in Philadelphia.
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The very first (and enjoyably rocky!) Crime Quiz Live with Writer Types hosts Eric Beetner and S.W. Lauden and fellow panelists Christa Faust and Danny Gardner.
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With the fabulous Ursula Ringham and Alex Dolan, offering advice and anecdotes on attending writing conferences and festivals.
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On Hard Cold Winter (and Hardy Boys) with Modern Signed Books.
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…and Just One More Thing, my guest appearances on a podcast about Columbo, with R.J. White and Jon Morris.
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The Most Crucial Game (Robert Culp!)
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How to Dial a Murder
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