#BlogTour: Somewhere Between The Silences by Lydia T Kelly @LydiaKelly3 @annecater #SomewhereBetweenTheSilences #RandomThingsTours

Good morning everyone I’m on the blog tour for Somewhere Between The Silences by Lydia Kelly today and I have a great guest post by the author to share with you.

Somewhere Between The Silences is available now in ebook and paperback, you can purchase a copy of both here.

Thanks to Anne Cater for inviting me onto the blog tour and to the author for providing me with this guest post.

Before I share my guest post with you here is a little bit about the book.

Book Synopsis:

Somewhere Between the Silences is a short, sharp psychological thriller, revealing the sinister truth of what lengths one man will go to, to keep his secrets silenced.

Katy Young was a radiant and out-going young woman in the prime of her life, longing for a new adventure with the man she loved. That was until Katy was involved in a hair-raising accident which caused seemingly irreversible damage to her memory; it now falls upon her adoring husband to revive those absent aspects of her past.

To look at, Ryan Young is a stereotypical man in his thirties, works hard and clearly dotes upon his wife and their only son, Aaron. But, beneath the surface lurks a monster, capable of unimaginable destruction.

Katy is well aware she does not exist in a regular marriage but how much of her past life has her husband repressed to keep control of his wife?

Recommended for 18+ due to mature themes and sexual content.

Guest post by the author:

I’d just like to take this opportunity to thank Over the Rainbow for featuring me on your blog, it’s been a really exciting time recently (if not a little scary) and I thought I’d share with you the ideas behind my ideas as well as why I decided to put pen to paper.
I chose to fictionalise my own experiences because they are easier to convey than starting a storyline entirely from scratch. I remember the first time I sent a friend my entire manuscript for Somewhere Between the Silences, I don’t think I took a breath until I suddenly became aware that I was feeling a tad light headed! Writing around areas of your own life makes you extremely vulnerable, in a way you’re giving anyone who reads the stories the access to your past. Many won’t even realise that the words are more than just stories, but there’s always a select few who read critically into every sentence.
After finishing ‘Somewhere Between the Silences’, my Dad called me and asked if my mind was really that dark or whether it was all fictional. I suppose I hoped that it was entirely the latter but I knew without a shadow of a doubt that there are areas of my imagination which can only be fuelled by experiences that don’t dance in fields of sunshine. I have noted a pattern in how my stories develop, the ones I am currently writing are not entwined with genre but they reflect a part of myself. Since I was a child, the concept of having to ask for something or confess an event was completely horrifying; until I learnt that you could just as easily convey a message in writing without having to babble on at someone because I couldn’t get my words out!
My friends have often commented on how bizarre and time consuming my way of writing is, no matter how hard I’ve tried to rectify this, I can’t help but to write the entire story on paper before typing it up on my laptop. Although this is time consuming, it gives me plenty of opportunity to edit as I go, introducing new ideas as I’m typing the chapters up. I thoroughly enjoy making note of my protagonists, although I usually know exactly what they look like and how the mannerisms will come across throughout the book. Each of my characters is based upon someone either in my life currently or that has been; these don’t necessarily have to have had a major impact upon my life but to me they must have stuck out for some reason. My favourite part is people trying to guess who the character is based on, or sometimes moaning when they aren’t included!
Four years ago my life changed entirely because I decided to move to Tenerife, leaving behind my family and friends was meant to be the hardest thing I would ever do. I was, as we usually are, wrong… At that time a very special and influential person who had been in my life since I was a very small child, sent me an inspirational quote which I have since kept as my screensaver and followed its advice, ‘Life is short. If there was ever a moment to follow your passion and do something that matters to you, that moment is now.’ Since returning to England, the decisions got harder still, becoming a parent was the single most amazing and terrifying experience in the world; choosing to do it alone was probably the hardest. In between each of these incredible moments were events which helped to create my own story, something which I took once as heart-breaking but now see it as material!
Someone asked me once what I hoped to get out of writing and allowing my work to be published. There are only two things which I desire to have achieved through my writing; that I can inspire someone else to follow a dream which they never believed was entirely possible and the most important, that when he’s old enough my son is able to say ‘That’s my Mum who wrote those books, and because of my Mum I know I can be and do beyond what it is than anyone believes I am capable of’.
I have numerous drafts which are currently waiting very patiently to be continued, a mixture of psychological thriller to a rom-com. The most recently written and in the process of being allowed to be named as an official first draft, A single Mum’s guide to life, Dating, Depression and Downright Disasters. I want to continue to write because I believe that a book can honestly change someone’s life, simply because it has mine. The power of a book is to remind us; spark our imaginations, fill us with remembrance of those moments which at times, life pushes aside. To become a character, who in reality, one could never truly be. For a book can be the key to our souls, if only we’d allow it.

Thank you once again for allowing me to share this with you.

Lydia x

About The Author:

Born and raised in Buckinghamshire, favourite book since I was 11 is Pride and Prejudice. Loved to write even as a child.Moved to Tenerife in 2014, came back to England in 2015 and gave birth to my beautiful son in February 2016.

Diagnosed with depression and anxiety in 2017, writing allows an enormous release, almost like slowly combing knots from your hair. Writing gives me a chance to express experiences that perhaps are too challenging to discuss outside of fiction.

Studying for a degree in English Literature, The Arts Past and Present, Spanish and Law, and work in a secondary school, mainly supporting children with special educational needs. Will get out of bed even if it’s 3am just to make n+ot+es of potential plots or character profiles.

Can never write one book at a time, currently in the middle of 4 (all due out by end of 2018):

A Poisoned Apple, The Wolf in Mine, A Single Mum’s Guide to Life (Dating, Depression and Down Right Disasters), Ella’s not-so Fairytale