The big question. Do you submit directly to the publishers, or do you find an agent who will do that for you? Based on anecdotal evidence I’ve heard, it can work either way. The bottom line is, if a publisher reads what he can sell, he’ll buy it. It doesn’t matter if it comes from an author or an agent. The trick is getting him to read it. That’s always your focus.

Here’s a quick example of how to use the XMLHttp object to perform a WhoIs query. You can then write your own functiosn to strip out the desired content in the page.

First, I’d like to offer my apologies to those of you who don’t know and use HTML coding. If you use WYSIWYG web authoring tools then you may as well only read the first half of this article. I’m not sure it’s possible to follow these suggestions if you don’t write your own HTML code. I know that you can insert code in most editors, but each varies. It’s worth looking up in your instructions though, because linking is critical to your site!