Updated MARCH 2011
If you get lost on my site the butterfly will bring you home

...from beautiful   Aotearoa/New Zealand  down in the corner of the South Pacific, where I write romances that are published worldwide and read in twenty-eight languages.

As Daphne de Jong I have published poetry, prizewinning non-fiction, many short stories, some of which have won literary awards, and a historical novel.

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NEWSLETTER MARCH 2011

Simon Brett on Writers and Depression

The trouble is, authors who feel they've failed don't have to look far for confirmation of that opinion. Bestsellers lists are everywhere, bulging with the names of other writers. And oh dear, the Amazon ranking of your latest book has plummeted even lower. The only literary news covered by newspapers is of million-pound advances being given to glamorous first-time authors in their twenties. Even switching on the television doesn't help; you're bound to find yourself watching some lucrative adaptation of a book written by someone other than yourself. Ditto the cinema, even radio. Whether you like it or not, writing is part of the very public entertainment business. You can't get away from it, and at times everything seems to conspire to rub in your failure. When you're really low, you can watch Stephen Fry on the television, and realise that he's better even at being depressed than you are.

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