Following My Own Advice

Now that I'm on the verge of publication I've begun contacting all the independent bookstores that feed into USA Today's Bestseller list.  I need to update the list as I've found one of the independents has been acquired by Borders and a few of the chains have either been acquired or gone out of business.

 

But I'm just waiting on replies now as to how easy or how difficult it is to get my book in their store.  I know there's going to be some kind of split, but if I can crack that top 100 I...