Any character creation tips for a new player?
The first one is the most important: you can make anything work these days. Play what you really want to play because you don't have to pick anything in particular to succeed.
That being said, some choices will give benefits you might find more useful when you first start. INT determines what you get from courses and reading books so having a starting INT of 60-70 (the latter being all that's needed to get the max from most all of them) allows you to get those improvement points earlier. However 'Carousing' at Dockgraves will give an INT point sometimes as will RPG sessions during an event or with Ayden and there's a chance of getting at least one point playing 'Spaceball' with the event engine as well. Thus you can forgo INT a little at the start and grind it up to 70 and then do the books and courses. This allows you to get off to a better start financially as you won't have so much of your time in the beginning dedicated to books and courses.
If you start out fighting by clearing the board (of all you plan to kill, I let some live), doing two Arena battles once that opens up for you and a bounty every day odds are your Ranged Combat will increase to over 100 in pretty short order, meaning you can start with a 30 Ranged Combat and eventually get to 100 where you're an auto-hit. However if you do it that way odds are you're going to want another top-tier mercenary (Space Marine, Felix, Black Guardsman, Ayden) with you early on to make the combats winnable/easier. If you start with a high ranged combat you can forgo that expense in the beginning and perhaps just get by with Doyle and yourself as the top hitters with Bud (who has an ammo pack so you want to train him up quickly), Loren and perhaps a slave or Ansel to make for a very economic team in the very beginning.
Early charm really makes the beginning go easier with the girls. You can also increase Charm up to 70 by repeatedly 'Caressing' during seduction attempts and get a point roughly once every other two-hour slut-cuddling session. 'Caress' until it greys out, then kiss once, go back to 'Caress' and keep at that until Grimdark yells at you for taking too much time in foreplay. Then you can go to the Doctor's Hall and get Charm increased to 85 by paying for plastic surgery. Starting with high Charm is easier and quicker though.
The toughest stat to increase that I know of now (outside of Performance which doesn't do anything yet) is Flagellation which used to be very tough to get in the Dungeon ('Training Room') but he may have changed that fairly recently and I've been over the cap and wouldn't notice. If not the best way to get that is by getting 'Rougher' with Kasey in the Dockgrave Dungeon and that's awfully expensive for new players. You can get some points from the classes at Devious Tools and some from books, but you'll still want more than that eventually if you plan on whipping naughty little sluts regularly so you could be tempted to start with it.
Gambling is a good one to start with a high score as you can really make a living at it---once you're over a hundred. You can grind yourself up there but it takes a lot of time and money so starting with the highest gambling you can is best if you plan to do it regularly.
All your physical stats you can train pretty easily so it's less important to take the ones that benefit those if you plan to play for a while. You'll want to start training Stamina on you and a girl from the beginning as it makes the game so much easier at the start, so keep in mind you can train Stamina, Dex and Strength much easier than INT, WP or Charm/Manip etc.