In September 2023, I sold my completed story collection and a novel-in-progress! From the October 2023 Publisher’s Marketplace:
Author of THE BIGNESS OF THE WORLD and AFTER THE PARADE Lori Ostlund‘s ARE YOU HAPPY?, a story collection and novella that could be titled “guns, god, and gays,” which examines class, identity, and loneliness, as well as the specter of violence that hangs over women, the LBGTQ+ community, and all of us, with a novel to follow, to Emily Bell at Zando, in a two-book deal, by Henry Dunow at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner (world English).
UPDATE: in April 2024, both my book contracts and I followed my editor Emily Bell to Astra House. My collection will come out in March 2025.