Jim Beaugez has two decades of experience writing for a variety of platforms and developing content marketing strategies and assets in the technology, music, audio-visual, software, non-profit and travel industries.

Beaugez’s writing has been published by The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Oxford American, Outside, Garden & Gun, Guitar World and many other publications and outlets. He is also a Telly Award-winning storyteller and producer as well as the creator of “My Life in Five Riffs,” a Guitar Player documentary series that traces contemporary musicians back to their sources of inspiration.

His music journalism has been cited as source material in books like “Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records” [2022, Hachette] and “Americanaland: Where Country & Western Met Rock ‘n’ Roll” [2021, Univ. Press of Illinois], and his Guitar Aficionado profile of author Greg Iles is featured in the trade paperback and digital editions of the New York Times-bestselling novel “Mississippi Blood” [2018, William Morrow/Harper Collins].

“The Dog Hunter,” his fiction debut, was published in the “Mid/South Anthology” from Belle Point Press in September 2022 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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