title: The Power of Truth: Creating Characters who are Detectives, Secret Keepers, Skeptics and More: Volume 1 in the Emotional Toolbox series for writers
author:  Laurie Hutzler 
description: LAURIE H. HUTZLER has worked as a story and character consultant to the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, talkbackTHAMES, Mersey Television/Lime Pictures and Aardman Animation Studio (UK), for Pixar University, Disney and Dreamworks (US), Endemol Netherlands (NL), RTL, Weidemann Berg and Grudy UFA (Germany), GloboMedia (Spain) and TNT (Russia) among others. She has been a consultant for Endemol and for FremantleMedia across a variety of scripted and entertainment formats in the UK, Europe and Australia. She was a staff writer and story consultant on Oscar-winner Paul Haggis NBC series, The Black Donnellys. She also worked as a consultant with Haggis on his films: In the Valley of Elah and Quantum of Solace. She consulted on two Oscar-winning foreign language films; as a story advisor on Tsotsi (South Africa) and on The Counterfeiter (Austria), as an eQuinoxe script advisor. Laurie taught screenwriting in the MFA program at the UCLA Film School for 10 years, and was an Artist-in-Residence in Television and Digital Entertainment at SMU in Dallas. She has taught for the Royal Literary Fund in Cambridge, England; The Sorbonne in Paris, France; Royal Holloway College, University of London, London England; DFFB film school in Berlin, Germany and IFS film school in Cologne, Germany.
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  PRAISE FOR TYLER HAYES
  
  
  “A wholly original take on the lands of make-believe from a captivating new
  voice in the genre. Hayes takes the reader on a journey to the heart of
  themselves, reminding them of all that was lost and all that can never be
  forgotten. A book as comforting and as cathartic as your first knocked-out
  tooth.”
  
  
  Meg Elison, Philip K. Dick Award-winning author of The Book of the Unnamed
  Midwife
  
  
  “This book is messed up in all the right ways. It’s as if Pixar’s Inside Out
  mugged Toy Story in a surrealist Raymond Chandler novel. Weird, fun, scary,
  and a great mystery to boot. Hayes sticks the landing.”
  
  
  Jennifer Brozek, Author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton
  Academy
  
  
  “This is detective noir shot through with technicolor playfulness the likes of
  which I haven’t seen since Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It’s pure imagination on
  multiple axes – with a ton of heart.”
  
  
  Alex Wells, author of Hunger Makes the Wolf
  
  
  “Combining detective noir, T