Jim MacQueen

Jim MacQueen is the founder, editor and publisher of all ePress Publishing Company's publications, including its blogs and Great Lakes Wines Magazine, an online web site dedicated to covering the wine industry in all states touching one of the Great Lakes. Jim is working on a sponsored project which will result in his photographing and researching brief histories of all 88 county courthouses in Ohio. At the same time, Jim is writing a novel based around his auto racing experience, featuring the globetrotting gourmet, reporter, and government spy, Herb Cook.

Jim has had a long career as a reporter, photographer, editor, and publisher at a number of magazines such as AutoWeek, Motor Trend, Road & Track and other automotive publications. He has worked as both a staffer and a freelancer. For nearly a decade, he was part-owner and Publisher of RACECAR Magazine, America's International Auto Racing Publication. He started with that company in 1976 as art director, was named Editor in 1977, and bought into the business in 1978. In the 1980s, he negotiated the sale of that property to Crain Communications, where it was folded into AutoWeek. He also has extensive business-to-business publishing experience from nearly a decade at Babcox Publications. He was both editor and publisher of Importcar Magazine, and later, Specialty & Custom Dealer Magazine, for Babcox. Jim is a 1974 graduate of the Ohio State University School of Journalism with a BS Degree, jointly majoring in journalism and photography.