Do you have any advice for a new writer with a new script who has no contact with the industry and doesn't know what to do with it? 

I think right now it's a writer's market. It depends on what form and who it's for. Look at what is being sold and who is selling and who is buying and what kind of script, and then get the names of who those people are, and lie, cheat, steal, bribe and get in to meet them - and con.