"I loved this novel for the ways it captured a small town through obituaries (obits unlike those published in any small-town newspaper because they are obituaries of revelations, of story, not a listing of facts). And then those obituaries work in conversation with vintage photos that hang over the stories spectrally. This novel is a gritty, elegiac fever dream of the American West that explores the strange intersections of belief, addiction, and masculinity."—Grant Faulkner, author of All the Comfort Sin Can Provide

“Ryan Habermeyer makes of Calypsee, Utah a kind of Winesburg of the West, inhabited by doomed and lonely believers. Necronauts is obsessed with death but brimming with vivid and excessive life, strange but credible. The book is a marvel of form and voice, its effects far more glorious than gloomy.”—Chris Bachelder, author of The Throwback Special

“Necronauts is something special: a novel in miniatures whose concerns are so large it feels almost cosmic. If you were to trace its family tree looking for ancestors, you might find Invisible Cities along one branch and Spoon River Anthology along another, with W. G. Sebald and Jeff VanderMeer among its nearby cousins. Ultimately, though, it's a book that transcends its heritage. Through its strange, barbed, wistful catalogue of uncanny recovered obituaries, it introduces us to a town full of people who, as the author might put it, "feel the holes in their hearts swallowing their hearts." So, I confess, do I. And so, I bet, do you.”—Kevin Brockmeier, author of The Ghost Variations

"This is an incredible, singular book; it reminds me of the cynical optimism of David Lynch, the wandering meditations of W.G. Sebald. It reads as though it were not a novel, but the deepest hidden record book of a strange, yet familiar American town. Anyone interested in death, in community, in the strangeness of family and the role each of us plays in the dreams of each other, will find something marvelous here."---Amber Sparks, author of And I Do Not Forgive You

"Necronauts reads like what might have happened if Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology had been written by David Lynch, just after he'd simultaneously converted to Mormonism and dropped acid. A strange surreal book that captures the shadowy sides of Utah better than anything else I know." ---Brian Evenson, author of Last Days

"With his novel Necronauts, Ryan Habermeyer has crafted a wondrously grim portrait of Utah: a land of sacrament cups and ketamine, of Ronald Reagan and omnipresent dust, of a mysterious cosmonaut boy and the world’s saddest dentist, of so many deaths by misadventure. By turns funny, horrifying, awe-inspiring, devastating, and strangely lovely, this was a reading experience that will stay with me for a long time. I can’t wait to see what Habermeyer does next."-–Tim Wirkus, author of A Bad Deal in Mormon Land 

MARKETING & PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN:

- Book readings post-publication in Washington D.C. and Baltimore
- Author appearances at literary festivals and writing conferences including AWP (Association of Writers and Publishers)
- Giveaway on Storygraph, the reader-led reader tracking platform
- Trade advertising and newsletter promotion
- Online outreach for interview, review, and roundup attention
- Essay and excerpt placement: Electric Lit, Reactor, Chicago Review of Books
- Social network campaign, Bookstagrammer, and BookTok outreach
- Podcast placement: Debutiful, The Awakeners
- Author website: ryanhabermeyer.com
- Instagram: @ryanhabermeyer