US rights to Curtis Jobling‘s new YA fantasy series Wereworld have been bought by Kendra Levin at Penguin US for “a significant sum,” according to Jobling’s agent John Jarrold. Puffin originally bought world rights to the series (see this article), and now Penguin UK’s Rights Director Zosia Knopp is handling the foreign rights sales.
Puffin expects to publish the first book in January 2011.
Wereworld will follow “the story of fifteen-year-old Drew, a shepherd’s son, as he comes of age and discovers he’s the last of the long line of Werewolves, and rightful (yet reluctant) ruler of the land of Lyssia, where lycanthrope ‘Werelords’ reign. Before long he’s hurtling headlong into an epic journey of fantasy and horror, from one deadly encounter to the next, meeting exotic Werelords at every turn as he’s drawn inexorably towards his destiny.”