Meet Natalie Morrow, author of “No One Will Find You Here”
Tell us what your book, “No One Will Find You Here,” is about!
Sure! Here’s the summary:
Hannah and Owen Cole think they’ve bought a house with a past. They have no idea how much of it is buried in the backyard. When the remains of two children are discovered beneath an old black walnut tree, a thirty-five-year-old disappearance is reopened. What begins as a cold case leads to Safe Haven, a respected organization built to help families escape dangerous homes — and to more graves connected to the people who were supposed to keep them safe.
What did you love most about writing this book?
I loved how uncomfortable this story became. It starts with something almost familiar — an old house, a renovation, a family trying to begin again — and then keeps removing the ground beneath the reader. I wanted the frightening part to come not from a monster, but from ordinary people making decisions they believe are justified. Those are the stories that stay with me the longest, because when you close the book, you can’t completely convince yourself that they couldn’t happen.
How did you start writing?
I started writing because the stories in my head became too loud to leave there. I’m fascinated by psychology, especially the gap between what people show the world and what they’re capable of hiding. Thrillers gave me a place to explore that. Once I finished my first book, I realized I didn’t just want to write one story. I wanted to build an entire body of work.
Tell us a little bit about your self-publishing experience.
Self-publishing has been a crash course in becoming more than a writer. I’ve had to learn publishing, formatting, distribution, covers, marketing, reader outreach — all the things you don’t think about when you’re staring at a blank page. My books are now distributed across multiple international platforms, and I’m also adapting some of my novels into feature screenplays. It’s a lot of work, but I love having control over what I create and where I take it.
What was your biggest challenge in bringing the book to market, and how did you solve it?
Visibility. Writing the book is difficult, but getting a new reader to notice it among thousands of other books is an entirely different problem. I stopped looking for one platform or one promotion that would magically solve that. Instead, I’ve been building slowly across retailers, reader communities, review platforms and social media. I think discoverability is cumulative — one reader, one review and one recommendation at a time.
What's one piece of advice you have for other writers?
Finish things. A good idea has almost no value while it’s living in your head. Finish the book, let people read it, learn from what happens, and write the next one. You can improve something that exists. You can’t do much with the perfect book you never finished.
Anything else you want folks to know?
No One Will Find You Here has also been adapted into a completed feature screenplay, and I’m currently beginning to explore its life beyond the novel. I love the idea that a story can start on a page and eventually become something completely different on screen. In the meantime, I’m still doing what started all of this: writing the next story.
Where can people find your book?
