Activate Thopter Foundry by paying ({1} magic symbol) and sacrificing Sword of the Meek.
Crime Novelist triggers, putting a +1/+1 counter on it and adding ({R} magic symbol) .
Resolve the Thopter Foundry ability, creating a 1/1 Thopter artifact creature token and causing you to gain 1 life.
When the Thopter enters the battlefield, Sword of the Meek triggers, returning Sword of the Meek from your graveyard to the battlefield attached to the Thopter.