``First rule.
Refusing to believe her dead eyes, the one-time theater editor at the city\'s least noteworthy periodical - now a bitter ghost haun.
But if the first thing you see when you come home after a long day at a lousy job is your own dead body, it can make even the most cynical non-starter in 1994 Seattle take an interest.
If you do it to be ironic, I\'ll throw your manuscript in your face.`` Greta didn\'t set out to solve a murder.
It\'s a clichE.
Never open your story with a corpse. ``First rule