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Leo Cappel

Smashwords Interview

Why?
Why I am an author? I wish I knew. I just can't help myself.

Are you a full-time author?

Actually, I am a three-way artist.

Three way?

Yes, I am an author, but also a sculptor and a musician.

How do you reconcile those three art forms?

For instance by writing a musical. The characters begin on blanc pages, like when you write a novel. The stage settings, masks and costumes satisfy the visual artist in me, and writing the music is where the musician comes in.

It must be an amazing experience, to sit in the audience at opening night..

Difficult to explain the feeling. Suddenly the characters are real people, moving around in front of you, and the musicians and singers make music exactly like you had heard it in your mind, before all of that was just scribles on paper.
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Books

Dine and Die by
You set the price! Words: 4,820. Language: English. Published: November 18, 2015. Categories: Plays » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
“Dine and Die” was advertised as a regular play, written specifically to be produced at a restaurant. The opening night and dinner party was sold out! Near the end of the play Linda suddenly collapse. Adam examines Linda. He smells peanut oil, and announces she must have been murdered. Up to that moment the audience had no inkling whatsoever it was a who-done-it instead of a regular play.
Papagenina's Flute by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 13,820. Language: English. Published: October 21, 2015. Categories: Plays » European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Papagenina is the daughter of Papageno and Papagena of Magic Flute fame. For her 13th birthday she is given the Magic Flute. To learn to use the instrument she visits her remote ancestor, Ole’pa. Still too inexperienced, and while trying to conjure up her Prince, she ‘creates’ the Queen of the Night by mistake. The play develops from there. It has been produced very successfully by young people.
Rock by
Price: $1.99 USD. Words: 20,790. Language: English. Published: October 20, 2015. Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » General, Nonfiction » General reference » Bibliographies & indices
18 Gentle short stories, some true, others might have been true. Even the stories about bad memories are mostly happy. Some stories date back to the war, some to last week. Some were award winners, one was a winner in the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Short Story Competition.
Languageland by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 20,010. Language: English. Published: August 13, 2015. Categories: Poetry » Biography, Poetry » European poetry » German
Elisabeth Augustin, 1903-2001, poet in exile, and Holocaust survivor. She escaped from Hitler in 1933 to Holland, where she wrote hundreds of poems; plays; novels and essays. Her deeply moving poems in languageland form a tri-lingual biography, told in her own words. Translated into English from Dutch and German originals by Leo Cappèl.
1819 AD by
Price: $2.99 USD. Words: 10,140. Language: English. Published: August 13, 2015. Categories: Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » herbal medications, Nonfiction » Health, wellbeing, & medicine » Alternative medicine
1819 AD Two hundred years ago a Dutch enthusiast accumulated a large collection of recipes and home medicines. I now offer it to the modern readers. Many of the recipes work surprisingly well. Others, like changing lead into mercury, clearly belong to the realm of alchemy. Together an interesting picture of life two centuries ago. May it give you much pleasure LEO CAPPÈL, NEW ZEALAND.
The Bloody Rosie by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 51,240. Language: English. Published: June 22, 2015. Categories: Fiction » Holiday » Adventure, Fiction » Inspirational
A diverse group of people share a common dream: to build their own yachts and sail around the Pacific. When one of the group, a professional actress, lands the leading role in a major stage production, the others become involved in various ways, and get hooked into theater life. Now they face a dilemma: how to reconcile the emotional pull of the stage with their desire to sail their own yachts.
Clone by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 72,110. Language: English. Published: June 8, 2015. Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General, Fiction » Science fiction » General
An unknown virus spreads over the world. A virus that causes women to get pregnant spontaneously, without men. Invariably their babies are girls, identical to the mothers. Clones. The novel CLONE follows the lives of an infected mother, her daughter and immediate family. In spite of the virus, the family manages to live fairly normal and satisfying lives. Set in a small New Zealand town.
Like a Guardian by
Price: $3.99 USD. Words: 101,090. Language: English. Published: May 28, 2015. Categories: Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs
Like a Guardian is the autobiography of Holocaust survivor, artist, author/playwright and musician Leo Cappel. Graduate of the Rietveld Art Academy, Amsterdam, and immigrant from Holland to New Zealand. Leo and his wife built their own yacht, and lived aboard for 16 years. Format: Leo recounts his memories to his granddaughter Tracy. Suitable for adults and teenagers. Easy reading.

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