Today, I am interviewing debut author, Hailey Sawyer. A native Rhode-Islander, Hailey holds a fascination with Japanese culture and writes that into her novel “Kenji and Yuki: A Japanese Tale” which is expected to debut on November 10, 2021.

I would say that the idea for Kenji and Yuki: A Japanese Tale inspired me to write a novel. It was one of those ideas that just sort of popped into my head one day in 2017. Although I wasn’t sure if this was an i...