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Capella Van Ryan, is the Irish born Public Figure, Author, Screenplay writer, Abstract Artist, Poet, Model, Yoga/Pilates and Dance instructor. Her first novel The Snowboat was the first in a series of ten, gaining world wide attention. She does a great deal of charity work using her successful name to highlight medical and mental health issues, which effect ex and current UK and US Veterans. Annually, donating a piece of her art worth £6,000 to raise funds for this cause. As well as to raise funds to help the widows and children of War Hero's.

Before her career as a much loved author and artist, she was a Paramedic Instructor, personal trainer and Accountant. Living in Texas for three years to further her education. Always yearning to delve in and write a book, she never expected to be the creator of such an extensive series. During the years 2010-2017, Van Ryan faced many personal and family heartbreaks, which delayed her progression for this series.

Capella Van Ryan, was born in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland. As a child Van Ryan, wrote many books of short stories, always aspiring to become a writer from a tender age. Van Ryan has been noted saying that her home life was a miserable affair, ever since her mother died from breast cancer when Van Ryan was only aged five. Her mother Dorothy Rose Woods, was the only loving person she ever recalled throughout her life. Her abusive family home has had a great deal of inspiration in her work. Disassociating herself from her entire family, mainly her abusive father and brother. Van Ryan's main character in the Snowboat Nicolette Beaumont, was based on herself. Claude, the owner of the Snowboat in the novel, was named after Claude Rains, her mothers favourite actor. A brief character Lily Rose, was a merger of her and her mothers favourite flowers. A small way to make the only person who ever loved her in her childhood a small but paramount role in her journey. In an interview in 2017, Van Ryan was asked about underlying truths in her work. She replied, "there are many shocking and horrifying truths which are hidden in all my work, as this was all I ever knew. And authors are always told to write what they know best, to breath life and existence into that piece of creation.  It's heart breaking yes for anyone, any child to suffer these nightmares, but that was my life, that was my father who made my life hell.  So why should I be ashamed of the things I had no control over!"

Enjoying her primary school very much, Van Ryan attended Saint Conor's Primary, located in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland from age five to eleven. Those were the school days she enjoyed the most. In the late nineties progressing to secondary school, was the worst days of her life. Between being bullied at school for being a protestant when she attended an all girls catholic school, and being bullied at home by her father and brother, it was at this stage Van Ryan started to experience depression for the first time. Which is why all these year mental health has been an important cause to her. Van Ryan rarely will not speak about this period of her life.

Inspiration

Meeting her husband when she was nineteen years old, in her hometown. He had his own medical training business, which was when he trained Van Ryan in Para medicine. Investing her childhood savings to become a partner. Savings she spent years raising in order to go to America, to get away from her family and Ireland, in search for a new life. After five months together and on Van Ryan's twentieth birthday, her husband proposed marriage. Moving to America in 2007, after years of saving and dreaming Van Ryan and her husband left Ireland, settling in Texas for three years. After time passed, Texas was not the dream Van Ryan had imagined for her new life. Her life took many drastic turns. As a private woman, she kept her pain to herself. Without a family to support or bring comfort, making Van Ryan a very tough person. From that period for several years Van Ryan claims she literally became numb and robotic. "These were the most stressful years of my life". Becoming strong willed and not needing anyone during times of crisis Van Ryan, came to not need anyone, but writing. During August 2010 was her first trip to Switzerland, and the birth of her first novel The Snowboat. Landing in Geneva she took the four hour train ride to Zermatt. Falling instantly in love with the picture card village. Saying "Zermatt was the place I wanted to make my home forever and ever. Breaking my heart when I had to leave." Staying at the hotel Albana Real, she loved the view from her room, that of The Matterhorn. "With mist covered tops, simply breath taking." The idea for her first novel started to come to life. On her way back to the hotel, after a long day skiing on top of the impressive European mountain, was when she found The Snowboat bar. Going in to try her very first martini, because she always wanted to try a 007. Basing her novels in Switzerland as she says "Switzerland is the only place I ever fitted in. Felt comfortable. Could truly be me. People liked me here, and accepted me for as I am. A warmth filled me that I never felt anywhere else I ever travelled to.  It just had to be Switzerland." A few months later December of 2010 Van Ryan suffered a miscarriage. Always wanting children so badly, she and her husband took the lose of that child badly. Never telling her father or family of the lose, to avoid receiving abuse, as she maintained her father spread gossip and didn't want the rest of the family to know her private business. This added to a significant alteration in Van Ryan's then mindset, writing about this in a round about way in The Snowboat. Basing the character Philippine on her mother-in-law. This was because her mother-in-law denied the fact Van Ryan was even pregnant to her son Van Ryan's husband. Left with no doubt that Van Ryan was indeed pregnant as her husband was with Van Ryan when she was told the delightful news, and the couple went and bought a baby blanket and other gifts for the expected baby. Without this element in Van Ryan's personal life, The Snowboat would have missed out on a vital element which makes it the much loved book it is. During this period of Van Ryan's life, she was in silent torment, still suffering from the scares of her childhood, as she suffered from eating disorders since a five year old child. Her father wasn't a man who provided well for her, he remained on benefits all of her life, and preceding. Anything Capella ever wanted to attempt to learn or do, she was always discouraged and told she couldn't and wouldn't be capable. Her father reportedly called her fat, ugly and stupid, which effected Van Ryan's entire life and every aspect to her life. Never believing in herself. From a teenager she suffered from starvation, to lose weight, to be good enough. All elements wrote in The Snowboat. It was during the period of her teens because of the bullying at school and home until 2010 she attempted suicide.

THE SNOWBOAT In 2014 Van Ryan completed her first manuscript. July thirty first seen the release of the novel onto the world wide markets.