1. Gloria Tesch (the author) self-published it, which anyone can do.
2. Nancy Yi Fan published Swordbird at 12. She may claim that Swordbird is only a novella, but a "novelist" can be defined as either a writer of novels or novellas. Just because a book as an 800-page brick doesn't mean it's good.
3. Even if she is the world's youngest novelist, or the youngest person to write a book that long, it doesn't mean it's good.
And it most certainly is not. Excerpt:
It was a difficult situation but the men in the camp stood closely together as one strong force and were ready to fight for their freedom and for their commanders Joey, Maya and Captain Goran.
“It is wonderful to see when the people in this camp believe in their leaders and commanders but it is more wonderful when the leaders believe in their people,” said Joey and continued, “maybe the time will come or has already come that we as leaders of this camp will pay a price to carry out our calling!”
“Bravo, Bravo, Bravissimo…” interrupted Gertrude, “most people think that we are the bad ones but basically we bring peace to the world. My two friends and I have agreed to make you an offer which you cannot reject.”
“And what is this diabolical offer?” asked Maya standing between Joey and General Goran.
“This is not a diabolic offer. It is an honest offer because we are ready, willing, able and we have also agreed that we will let your men go free.
They are all free to go home and they can take all their belongings and possessions with them and go back to their families.”
“You will let them go home?” Goran asked.
“Yes, they can go home… all of them. They do not have to fight our army of over ten thousand men which has your camp surrounded.”
The army of ten thousand also cheered when they heard that they had not to fight.
“Under one condition, of course, will we let them go free…
The condition is that Maya and Joey give their lives freely as human sacrifices in honor of our lord Abbadon the son of the great Apollyon.”
My apologies to Stephenie Meyer and Christoper Paolini. At least their writing doesn't read like a Chinese person with high-school level comprehension of English.
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