Star Wars Bookworms

Star Wars Bookworms is now two years old! In this episode we talk about Celebration, Darth Vader, Marilyn Monroe, Harry Potter, and football. We talk about the beginnings of our plans for Star Wars Celebration. We are doing a show on the official podcast stage you guys! Our Goodreads book club is going strong with over 200 members. We are wrapping up our reading of Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and a...

In this episode of Star Wars Bookworms we talk mostly comics and answer some listener emails. Bria from Tosche Station joins us and brings some impressive comic book knowledge to the discussion. She’s really cool. Splinter of the Mind’s Eye is our book club book for Jan/Feb. Join us over at Goodreads and get in on the conversation. Marvel Star Wars #1 has come out and we give our thoughts on the f...

We took a little bit of a break but we are back just in time for Christmas! And so much happened during our time off, so we had plenty to talk about. StarWars.com posted a holiday gift guide for readers. Teresa walked us through the list and we basically want it all. Since our last episode the title The Force Awakens was announced, we got a teaser trailer, and character names were revealed. We gav...

We are totally spoiling you guys. Last episode we had Vanessa Marshall, the voice of Hera Syndulla, to help us review a book. This episode we bring you an interview with one of the executive producers from Season 1 of Star Wars Rebels, Greg Weisman! Greg talked to us about his childhood memories of Star Wars , his time working on Rebels , and the upcoming Kanan comics. We also discussed other proj...

If you could get any guest to help review the novel A New Dawn , who would it be? Vanessa Marshall, right? We did that. Vanessa Marshall, the voice of Hera Syndulla, joined us for the entire episode and we were crazy excited. NYCC. We talk with Vanessa about her experience at New York Comic Con and give our own favorite moments. A new Kanan comic is coming from Marvel! And will we ever get Teresa’...

After travels to Dragon Con and some great times talking to Star Wars authors , Aaron and Teresa are back to reviewing books and comics… and talking about some other fun stuff too. They welcome guest Megan from Blog Full of Words and Den of Geek who sticks around with them for most of the episode. Emails! They read a few listener emails and get into a discussion about the portrayal of women in Sta...

More Dragon Con coverage from Star Wars Bookworms! Last episode Aaron and Teresa gave a recap of their experiences at Dragon Con 2014 and shared the audio from the first panel they moderated featuring authors Timothy Zahn and Christie Golden. This episode our hosts talk about their time preparing for and moderating the second Star Wars author panel about canon and Legends . This panel featured Zah...

Panels, parties, and.. people? Friends? Let’s go with friends. In this episode Teresa and Aaron recap their highlights from Dragon Con 2014. They also had the privilege of moderating a couple Star Wars author panels! We have included the audio from the “Tropes in Star Wars” panel featuring fan favorite authors Timothy Zahn and Christie Golden. And we may have gotten Christie to talk a little about...

Right before we head off to DragonCon we bring you an extra long, extra special episode featuring discussions of Adam Bray’s recent books and a comic review with Mark Newbold ( Jedi News UK , Radio 1138 ). Asajj Ventress and Quinlan Vos in love? Aaron and Teresa speculate based on the new synopsis for the upcoming Ventress novel. Keep on reading. We have selected the next book for our Goodreads bo...

In this special episode we have an interview with the writer of Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide , Adam Bray. Adam talks to us about his first time viewing Star Wars at a drive-in theater, his personal fandom, and what Star Wars characters he enjoys the most. We also discuss how he got into writing and his approach to writing for a younger audience. A modern day Indiana Jones. Adam lets us know...

On this episode of Star Wars Bookworms we have another first time guest, we talk about the book and comic news coming out of San Diego Comicon, and we review a couple comic volumes. We were so happy to have first time guest Zak “PT” Thorogood join us. He is the main comic book reviewer over at Jedi News . Did Marvel play it safe? We talked about our reactions to the first three Star Wars comic ser...

Aaron propped his feet up and let Teresa do all the work this time around. She brings us an awesome interview with fan-favorite Star Wars author Drew Karpyshyn, writer of the Darth Bane Trilogy , Revan , and Annihilation. In this hour-long interview Drew talks about everything from his writing style, favorite characters, video games, Star Wars Legends and so much more. Teresa also gets insight fro...

Star Wars Weekends kept us busy for the month of June but we are back with a new episode and some new guests! First time guest Paul DePaola ( EU Cantina , Fanboys Talking ) joined us and talked about his fandom, comics, and his 501st membership. Another first time guest, Johnamarie Marcias ( Now This is Podcasting , The Wookiee Gunner ) gave us a recap of New York Book Con 2014. She also spoke Man...

This episode we don’t have any major discussion topics but we do have two great guests to help us review the novel Honor Among Thieves. We were thrilled to have first time guest Shazbazzar from the Techno Retro Dads podcast. Returning for the first time since our 3rd episode we also have James Floyd from Club Jade and Big Shiny Robot . The Star Wars Bookworms book club is going strong and now has...

Big movie and book news has been released since our last episode and we need to talk about it! We put together this special episode to briefly talk the Episode VII casting and to dig into the big Star Wars Expanded Universe news. As our guest this episode we have Megan from Blog Full of Words and Den of Geek . Episode VII casting. We give our thoughts on the return of the original actors and the f...

Review this episode: Maul: Lockdown (novel) This episode we welcome another awesome guest, Bryan Young from the Full of Sith podcast. Our very own fangirl. Teresa was named Fan Girl of the Day by Her Universe. Congrats Teresa! The first month of our book club went great! We had over 50 people join and lots of discussion on our Goodreads page . Let us know which book you want to read next. We are g...

Reviews this episode: Darth Vader and the Ninth Assassin (comic volume) Legacy: Prisoner of the Floating World (comic volume) Back to reviews! Our last couple episodes were an interview and discussing Rebels , but now we are back to our old ways and reviewing some comics. Mark Newbold ( Jedi News , StarWars.com, Radio 1138 ) joins us this episode to talk some Star Wars Expanded Universe. Star Wars...

This episode is the second part of our one-year anniversary celebration! We invited the guys from the Rebels Report podcast ( Pete Morrison and Andy Ury ) to talk about the Rebels characters revealed so far and Star Wars Expanded Universe characters they remind us of. Also don’t forget about our book giveaway ! Finally an episode not about Ewoks! We talk in detail about all 6 Rebels and the Inquis...

It’s the one year anniversary of our podcast, and we want to celebrate! For our celebration we are not only giving away free books ( learn more here ) but we also have two new episodes of Bookworms this week. Last episode we reviewed the comic digest Ewoks: Shadows of Endor . This episode we interview the writer/artist of the comic, Zack Giallongo. Are Ewoks cool again? We talk about why Ewoks are...

Reviews this episode: Ewoks – Shadows of Endor (comic digest) Death Star Owner’s Technical Manual (reference guide) Another episode? So soon? That’s right, it’s still January and we already have two episodes on the books. Since we didn’t do any reviews in last week’s episode we decided to do another episode right away to get back on schedule. Plus Teresa just couldn’t wait any longer to review thi...

No reviews this episode, just discussion. With all the rumblings around the Star Wars Expanded Universe fandom right now we wanted to take an episode and weigh in on the latest news. We welcome friends of the show Josh Stolte ( TechnoRetro Dads , Tron Decoding the Grid ) and Tricia Barr ( Fangirls Going Rouge , Fangirl Blog ) as our guests Marvel to begin publishing Star Wars comics in 2015. Good...

Reviews this episode: Empire and Rebellion: Razor’s Edge (novel) Dark Times: Fire Carrier (comic volume) We have been away for a little over a month but we are back with a brand new episode of Star Wars Bookworms! Here is a summary of the episode. We welcome Eric Geller ( The Forcecast , TheForce.net ) and William Devereux ( EU Cantina , We Talk Clones ) as our guests Aaron and Teresa shamelessly...

Reviews this episode Dawn of the Jedi: The Prisoner of Bogan (comic volume) Star Wars: In the Shadow of Yavin  (comic volume) It’s November and it’s starting to get cold outside (depending on where you live). Now is the time of year to snuggle up and read a book… or listen to a podcast about books. In this 15th episode of Star Wars Bookworms we welcome blogger and first time podcast guest Megan ....

Star Wars Reads Day was this past Saturday and I attended the event in Lancaster, PA. The event was a ton of fun and I would recommend it to all Star Wars fans, especially if you have kids. One of the highlights was the attendance of Star Wars author Joe Schreiber. He is the author of the novels Death Troopers and Red Harvest , but the novel I was excited to hear about was his upcoming Maul: Lockd...

Review this episode Kenobi (novel) Anyone who listens to Star Wars podcasts is probably familiar with our guest for this episode. We were happy to welcome Jimmy Mac from the podcast RebelForce Radio ! Of course since we had him we had to get his take on the Star Wars Expanded Universe. He talked about how he got into the EU while it was still in its infancy, some of the early things he was into, a...