Articles
Southern Writers Magazine, “Haiku: The Power of Brevity,” January/February 2017
Southern Writers Magazine, “Focus on Perspective,” September/October 2016
Southern Writers Magazine, “Removing Your Character’s Mask,” July/Aug 2016
Southern Writers Magazine, “Interviewing Your Character,” May/June 2016
Southern Writers Magazine, “The Zen of Writing a Sequel,” September/October 2015
Interviews
Lit Ladies Blog, “Creative Characterization with Jan Morrill,” May 2015
Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb, “An Interview with Jan Morrill,” February 2015
Ozarks at Large with Kyle Kellams, KUAF (NPR), “Real Events of The Red Kimono,” September 2013
Links to Awards and Reviews
Arkansas State Library: Selected as 2013 Arkansas Gem
http://www.library.arkansas.gov/centerforthebook/Documents/online%202013%20Arkansas%20Gems%20poster.pdf
Oklahoma Writers Federation: 2014 Best Fiction Book
https://janmorrill.wordpress.com/2014/05/05/the-other-things-i-learned/
Shelf Awareness: The Red Kimono
http://www.shelf-awareness.com/readers-issue.html?issue=172#m3283
Historical Novel Society: Editor’s Choice
http://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-red-kimono/
Amazon Reviews:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Red-Kimono-A-Novel/product-reviews/1557289948/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1
Goodreads Reviews:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17074998-the-red-kimono
Barnes & Noble Reviews:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/reviews/Red-Kimono%2FJan-Morrill/1101222668?ean=9781557289940
Nikkei View: The Red Kimono captures the tragedy of internment, and the larger context of racial injustice
http://www.nikkeiview.com/blog/2013/04/red-kimono-captures-the-tragedy-of-internment-and-the-larger-context-of-racial-injustice/
The News-Gazette Review:
http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2013-08-04/red-kimono-looks-internment-camps-us.html
Publishers Weekly: The Red Kimono
http://publishersweekly.com/978-1-55728-994-0
State of Consciousness: The Red Kimono by Jan Morrill: ready to climb the charts!
http://poeticlicensedk.blogspot.com/2013/03/although-red-kimono-first-novel-by.html
My Sister’s Book Keeper: The Red Kimono
http://mysistersbookkeeper.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-red-kimono.html
My Oklahomian Exile: The Red Kimono: A Book Review about WWII Japanese Relocation Camps
http://myokexilelit.wordpress.com/2013/05/09/the-red-kimono-a-book-review-about-wwii-japanese-relocation-camps/
Broken Teepee Book Reviews: The Red Kimono
http://www.brokenteepee.com/2013/05/the-red-kimono-by-jan-morrill-book.html
Write on Purpose: Book Review of Historical Fiction, The Red Kimono
http://writeonpurpose.com/6772/reviews/book-reviews-reviews/book-review-of-historical-fiction-novel-the-red-kimono-by-jan-morrill
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