Nancy's publisher did send a copy of Swordbird to our office, but because Jackie was in the USA filming Rush Hour 3, I took the book home to read it for him. (I think you are the symbol of martial arts in the eyes of the world.) Please let me know and I will ask my publisher to send an advance copy to you. If you could spare some time to read it, and write some comments, I'm sure it would amplify my voice in conveying the message of peace to the world. Deep within my story, the sword symbolizes justice and peace rather than fighting, which is also the soul of Chinese martial arts.
I've created a fantasy novel called Swordbird. Hi! I'm Nancy Yi Fan, a thirteen-year-old Chinese girl who is a martial arts (swordplay) enthusiast as well as a writer.
And getting a second book deal is pretty nifty as well: HarperCollins has signed her to write a Swordbird prequel, which could go on sale before she enters high school.It began with a letter sent to Jackie's Hong Kong office from a young fan in America: “Peace is wonderful, freedom is sacred,” she says. (What’s more, she e-mailed it blind into the slush pile at HarperCollins, without an agent.) Despite her uncanny achievement, she is not a jaded child. Her story, about warring feathered factions and a muscular supernatural hero who saves their society, retains a good-versus-evil innocence, coming alive through the vividly depicted warblers and their dialogue-especially surprising given that the young author was still polishing her English at the time. “I was shocked that a place that felt so solid and majestic was gone,” says Fan, now 13 and a Florida eighth-grader. Two years after the attacks, she was still having dreams about war. As a new immigrant from China, Nancy had been to the World Trade Center’s observatory early in the summer of 2001. Ten-year-old Nancy Yi Fan went a little further: Her novel, Swordbird, hits bookstores this week. Photo: Courtesy of HarperCollins Children's BooksĪfter 9/11, many kids turned their fear and anger about terrorism into painful drawings, intense discussions, and heartbreaking writing.
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