Beyond The Book Festival 2025
Rosanne Tolin
An experienced and well-respected journalist, Rosanne Tolin is the creator and editor of the ALA award–winning children's ezine and website Imagination CafÉ. Tolin is also the former managing editor of Guideposts for Kids magazine and the Guideposts for Kids website.
She lives in Chesterton, Indiana.
James Pauley Jr
James Pauley, Jr. was born and raised in a small town in southwestern Michigan. He received his bachelor’s degree from Albion College, with a double major in German and Spanish. Spending a semester each in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Heidelberg, Germany, piqued his interest and lifelong love of international travel. He began his career as a flight attendant in 1978, a job that he loved until his retirement in 2023.
Brian Vukadinovich
Brian Vukadinovich is a retired teacher and basketball coach in Indiana and has served as executive director of The Posner Center of Justice for Pro Se's based in Chicago, Illinois, for retired federal court of appeals judge Richard A. Posner.
Bob Johnson
Bob Johnson holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. He took an extended break from writing short stories to follow several career paths, the most notable being an English professorship at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, and Operations Manager at WSBT-TV in South Bend.
Haley Newlin
Haley Newlin grew up watching Vincent Price movies and listening to The Beatles, both of which have heavily influenced her work. In 2016, her pothic short story "The Tactics of a Cryptic Arbitrator" was a finalist in the Penmen Review fall fiction contest. She has published two novels, Not Another Sarah Halls and Take Your Turn, Teddy. Her short story "The Butcher on Blue Jay Way" is featured in Kandisha Press' SLASH-HER anthology. This collection has received praise from Stephen Graham Jones and Barbara Crampton.