Shimmer

Shimmer is a magazine of speculative fiction whose connection to Colorado is via its editor E. Catherine Tobler (the editor-in-chief is Beth Wodzinski from, I believe, Utah for those keeping score at home). The magazine comes out quarterly as both an ezine via a PDF file (at a discounted rate) and a hardcopy magazine. You can purchase it in either format from its website (just click here). The remarkable cover "Penny’s Grave" is by multi-award-winning artist John Picacio. All of the art in this issue is stunning, and as it just so happens, this is their art issue. And so they went about selecting stories in a different manner than usual. As their website says:

For this issue, the art comes first. We selected art, and then invited some Shimmery favorites to write stories inspired by the images.

E. Catherine Tobler Honors Poe

E. Catherine Tobler sold her short story "Beyond Porch and Portal" to Ellen Datlow for an anthology tentatively called Poe: New Tales inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, that will be published by Solaris in 2009 to honor Poe's Bicentennial. As E. Catherine says:

I love working with Ellen; she's a gem.

Barb & J. C. Hendee Purple Pens Interview

I don't know how old this interview is at the Purple Pens website, but it's a good interview, delving into Barb and J. C. Hendee's collaborative writing process. Plus, the interview is by local E. Catherine Tobler. So you get, like, three Colorado writers for the price of one.