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Russel Blake's advice to newbies. There's also an interesting Kboards thread about this post.

More advice for self-pub newbies. I love this paragraph:

With our sights on an ultimate goal, little things when we first start, such as no reviews and low sales, are not as big a deal as we sometimes feel they are. It’s okay to take a couple years to figure out how to do things right—it’s okay to be invisible while we learn the ropes. And we can actually enjoy that invisibility while getting mistakes out of our system, because we’ll have a plan for success and if we don’t give up, we will reach that success.

The Crimson Peak costumes really did look fantastic, and Jezebel has an interview with the designer.