User blog comment:Frentiza the ferret/Essay: Scary SImilarity/@comment-1903875-20100703122207

This is a very insightful essay you have here! When I found this essay, I instantly took out my copy of swordbird and started to point out the similarities. One similarity between Redwall and Swordbird that I feel should have been mentioned is how the main villain in the Redwall books is usually evil-intelligent, and how his horde always seems to be a bunch of stupid thugs, which is also the case in Swordbird. I think that the author knew that her book was Redwall inspired, but just wouldn't admit it so she would look like an awesome child author and get a ton of fame. Also, the publisher could have known the same thing, and since the author was twelve years old, they didn't want to hurt her feelings and published her cheesy redwall rip-off. Very good job pointing out those similarities between the two books.