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Sunday

labeled the rest of the envelopes.
sent a few emails

Monday

Sent SZ's galley files to print.
Mostly wrote emails.
More eBook research

Tuesday

Packaged all Keyhole orders.
Sent a lot of emails.
Set up SJ book on site and GoodReads, made banner ad.
Bloomsday party.

1. Office Depot, bought envelopes and printer cartridge.
2. Folded fifty copies of the Digest.
3. Made info sheet for Dollar Store Tour
4. Drove to five or six venues, gave info sheet to employees.
5. Went to a couple more places to distribute Digest and IsReads postcards.
6. Post office.
7. packaged up some #7, printed labels.

1. 7:30 day job.
2. correction on Digest, uploaded replacement files.
3. bought ticket to Pittsburgh.
4. printed Digest.
5. read a portion of book submission.
6. long phone call.
7. printer searching, price calculating.
8. added Phantasmagoria excerpts to site.
9. read up on Kindle formatting.
10. emails sent: 13.

1. 7:30am day job.
2. answered interview questions.
3. read a few submissions.
4. accepted story for the digest.
5. Planned trip to Pittsburgh.
6. rearranged digest layout.
7. watched Ghost Hunters.
8. made PDFs.
9. went to Fido, Bongo, then Fido again.
10. wrote code for digest page, uploaded files.

1. 7:30 day job.
2. took call from printer.
3. went to Office Depot, no envelopes. Went to Staples, no envelopes.
4. rubbed the covers on all the books.
5. flipped through another sample book.
6. queries to local venues.
7. read some submissions.
8. compared printer quotes.
9. Trivia night.

1. 7:30am. day job
2. posted news update.
3. fixed mistake on Books section.
4. took a call, discussed printing specs with printer on lunch break.
5. wrote facebook note.
6. set up advance copies for Shellie's book.
7. locked myself out of the house. eventually found a stick to open broken screen door handle.

1. 7:30am. Day job.
2. Wrote a few emails during work.
3. Tried to fix a couple of websites. One of them would pay me if I knew anything about ASP. I can't fix it. That was my lunch break.
4. Post office.
5. Took Henry to vet.
6. Flipped through sample books from a printer.
7. Read a portion of a book submission.

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We're not the first Keyhole Magazine.

In 1960 there was Keyhole Mystery Magazine:

* Auth/Ed: Dan Roberts
* Year: 1960
* Publisher: Winston Publication; New York
* Price: £0.25p
* Pages: 139
* Cover:
* Notes: Vol. 1, No. 2

Short Stories:
The Trap - Norman Daniels
Night Ride - Theodore Sturgeon