Manuscripts
Hello, I am an aspiring YA author seeking literary agent representation and cultivating connections with editors and fellow writers. Here you will find teasers for my available and upcoming projects. For queries, partials and/or fulls, please email layla(at)laylamessner(dot)com.
Molten
YA paranormal romance with multi book arc
68K
Status: Complete
A teenage girl falls in love with the young man who rescued her from drowning, only to discover that he’s a two-thousand-year-old immortal who murdered her in a past life.
DEMOLITION
YA dystopian with heavy romantic elements
Status: 1st draft complete; editing in progress
Lord of the Flies meets Starhawk’s The Fifth Sacred Thing, but with more romance and three genders.
Rattlesnake Eyes
YA suspense
Status: I am drafting RE as a short story, but have a feeling it wants to be novel
When Candace and Crimson Blake uncover the video recorder hidden in their bedroom, they think their parents must be peeping pervs, but the truth is even more sinister.
