For too long, the actions of the Empire from Star Wars A New Hope has denied the fans the chance to know and love Alderon.

Lucky for us, we have Claudia Gray, who stepped in to write this atrocious wrong and show us both the wonder and beauty of the planet and our favorite princess's early beginnings in the rebellion in her newest book, Leia, Princess of Alderon.

Welcome to Sky Talkers, This Galactic Life.

Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin. Hello, and welcome to Sky Talkers This Galactic Life. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin. Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers

This Galactic Life. I'm your host Charlotte. Hey guys. I am your other host, Caitlin, and welcome back to

Sky Talkers. For some reason, I feel like we have not podcasted in a while. I know. It's felt like

so long because so much has happened. Oh my God.

So much Star Wars. So much has happened and like we've been traveling a lot. I don't know. I just feel

like I have not sat down in front of my microphone in a long time. Yeah, me neither. And actually,

we've been traveling because last weekend we were lucky enough to be at DragonCon, which turned out to be amazing.

And we actually have a special guest on our show to discuss all things Leah, Princess of Alderon, with us.

Everybody welcome Sarah Dempster, a writer from 1138 and, you know, an awesome person on the Star Wars Twitter at Sarah Demp. Welcome, Sarah. Hi, thanks for having me back. Yay, we're so happy you're here. We love having you on. Thanks. I like to talk Star Wars, so, you know. Oh, good. Us too. Us too. It's fitting, too, because the last time we had you on was to talk about Rebel Rising. Yeah. She's our book girl now.

You're like our resident.

I love Sky Talkers.

I love my teenage girls in books.

Me too.

It's good.

So how was your Dragon Con?

It was, oh my gosh.

It was super crazy, but, you know, fun like it always is.

This was actually my eighth year going, which I just realized. And, yeah, it's crazy. My friend and I actually, we checked in, like, on Wednesday morning because we already had photo shoots lined up for our costume. We saw that. Charlton I were like, they're so early. We're so jealous. It was actually really nice because the hotel was super empty, so we could just, like, run around and take pictures on our cell phones and our costumes and take advantage of all the good photo spots before, like, the crowds moved in.

But it did mean that by the time Monday rolled around, I was ready to go home.

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