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Writing a Non-Boring Family History

Hazel Edwards’ Writing Non-fiction workshops were swamped with family historians, so she began to run specialised sessions. Avid historians now book out her How to Write Non-Boring Family Histories seminars. Her workshops concentrate on how to shape and write a book that other people will want to read. The approach in this book is a result of advice offered in workshops and private consultancies held Australia-wide.

Hazel has written over 200 books for adults and children. She is best known for her children’s classic There’s a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake. Antarctic Writer on Ice was researched in Antarctica while Hazel was the recipient of the 2001 ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition) berth. In 2009 Hazel was awarded the ASA Medal by her writing peers, and she has been nominated for the 2011 Astrid Lindgren Award. Her website www.hazeledwards.com has details of other writing projects and talks.

This revised edition published 2011
First published in Australia in 1997 by Hale & Iremonger
an imprint of The GHR Press
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McMahons Point NSW 2060
www.ghrpress.com

The moral right of the author has been asserted. This work is copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this book may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior written permission from the publisher.

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Edwards, Hazel, 1945 Writing a non-boring family history / by Hazel Edwards. Revised ed. ISBN: 978-0-9871078-5-5 (pbk.) Genealogy – Authorship. Australia – Genealogy.

808.0669291

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