Brandon Massey, the author of the self-published 1999 horror novel Thunderland, appears nested with Kensington Publishing Corp., which picked up Massey's first book, revised it and distributed it nationwide last December. (Deals).

Brandon Massey, the author of the self-published 1999 horror novel Thunderland, appears nested with Kensington Publishing Corp., which picked up Massey's first book, revised it and distributed it nationwide last December. Kensington editor Karen Thomas has contracted for a second Massey novel, Dark Corner, and a horror fiction anthology, Dark Dream, for which Massey is now actively soliciting submissions (see http://www.brandonmassey.com/darkdreams.htm). Both books are to come in 2004. His agent, Sara Camilli, works from rural Pennsylvania repping such clients as Eric Jerome Dickey and Zane, who made the hook-up for Massey.