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This is magnificent! So animated. And hilarious.
Ellen

Paula - This image is a favourite of mine.
It makes me smile every time I see it :)

Looks like a theme for a great PB story. Luv the color scheme.

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Hey, thanks you guys!

I love this Paula!

Great concept, Paula. I love it!

That is adorable.

Love the "YUM" label Paula - we also LOVE shortbreads, never had them with chocolate before.....gotta try that!!!!!

WOW! These came out GREAT! I love the intense color of the beet. How about 'Good for You' for a title, because these root veggies are...good for you! Have a wonderful day!

Really nice. The colors are gorgeous.

Fabulous!! And I am so glad you left out the rectangle. There's something wonderful about the juxtaposition of Roots, normally anchored in the ground, suddenly loose from their earthly
bounds. Pulling up roots, the second they're on their way. LOVE IT!!

Glad you enjoyed the roasted veggies.I told you so.

How about "Unearthed"?

Really nice Paula, I've been following this series and it's been a pleasure:)

How about " Garden Tips " ?

Lovely Paula - beautifully rendered and whimsical - my favorite combination. Personally, I like "Roots and Wings". :-)

Beautiful piece Paula! Fabulous composition and as you said, there sure is a lot of colour in them thar beets!! I personally think that titles should come from the artist and I am often hopeless at titles anyway - so I hope something brilliant comes to you. Give it time to filter up from your subconscious! :-)

Love that sweet little radish at the bottom! Beautiful work, as always!

Oh my goodness. This is amazing. I almost want to say either Falling Veggies or Floating Veggies. Beautiful Paula

My favorite part is the radish at the bottom as well.

How about 'Enyarn'. Makes no sense, but it's replacing a pun on root with yarn, which it does look like.

ryan
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Woah, Paula. Lovely piece. I have always loved caput mortem, even though the name is off-putting, the color is unique. I like Leslie's "Unearthed" and ranjini's "Garden Tips". Your image really captures the reaching down which is what roots do best.

Any names I could think off sounded very corny but I just had to tell you what a great piece this is. I LOVE that beet!

Paula, This is beautiful! So much more interesting than a bowl of fruit or veggies:) Great work, but since I've been following your blog, this is no surprise!

Then there's always "Yummy."

Great finish, Paula! Such a creative composition and the colours are wonderful. I like Caput Mortuum too, a nice dark purply hue - perfect for your beet. :)

Oh my goodness, of course that is the perfect title. I just love these, amazing work, you are so talented.

Amazing so far. Can't wait to see it finished. I love the kitties. At PetsMart today someone brought in 5 little kittens, all different colors and patterns. Sooo cute

The veggies are looking good already and your kitties are adorable.

This is really taking shape now, Paula, I admire your perseverence!

I love your kitty pics! Phyllo is clearly in command of the kitchen paper...and that is indeed a masterly set of whiskers on Saachi! Lol.

Your drawing is beautiful. I like the way they are "flying"freely.

Love your cats too. Those faces....=^..^=

I like your floating vegetables.

I Phyllo lying on the kitchen table?

Phyllo should do a paper towel commercial! Love the new art!

...I 'lurk' no more! I just HAD to comment on these yummy veggies. Great work, Paula! Yeah, I know it's slow going, I can see that, but the results so very good. The detail on the leaves, wow! Kitty pix are great! Phyllo SHOULD do an ad for paper towels; he certainly seems to have a 'thing' for them! And Saachi's whiskers ARE beautiful; he (she?) is beautiful. I'll be watching for more veggie progress!

The 'tails' on the carrots and beets look like your wool drawings...hmmm...knitted vegetables...just sayin'

Roast the veggies! Give them a scraping (carrots)
and a wash, cut them in chunks. Into a bowl
with some drizzled olive oil, toss them till covered with oil.
Place in a roasting pan or on a n oiled cookie sheet. Roast at 425 degrees for about 25-30 min. take out and cool and have a feast. I roast EVERYTHING!! You can also sprinkle them with herbs as well. Yum!!

P.S.
Forgot tosay, lovely drawing, can't wait to see where you go from here as well.

OXO, C

Paula, thanks for the description of the process, very interesting. I like how you go look at the vegetables in the store. Somewhat humerous if you think about seeing it in life !! Great to see what is coming up next. Love your work.

This is going to be a wonderful piece, I can already tell! Vegetables lend themselves to colored pencil so nicely! Can't wait to see how it comes along!

I really like your drawings! Beautiful shapes and positions on those beets and carrots!
very interesting to see your work in progress.

It's great to see your process, thank you for sharing, look forward to seeing this develop

Yes, it's good to see how your ideas first take shape and the work that goes into developing a drawing. I like how you experiment until you get the composition you like, takes discipline and imagination. Looking forward to seeing the colour going down.

That book 'Blindspot' looks intriguing...will check that out :)

My first thought when I pulled this up was "what a wonderful background color". You did a great job on the tomatoes too!

Great job, Paula!
I especially love the vaguely extraterrestrial grape tomatoes falling, flying, floating
Hooray!

Love it! Great colors and composition.

Congrats on launching this new series! This is one mighty fine looking heirloom tomato! Love the background colour too!! Can't wait to see the next one!!!

Paula, your work is just amazing. That tomato looks like you could bite right into it. How talented and creative you are. Thanks for sharing.

Lovely drawing. You have the patience of a saint
to render this so subtly and carefully.

There's that quirky Paula humor. Love it!

Gosh, thanks everybody!!

Really beautiful work and such lovely subtle colours!

Loving this Paula I have a "thing" for vegetables at the moment also :) mmm now i feel like pumpkin soup.

Even tho i realise this is a tomatoe :)

It is a 'Happy' image Paula, no wonder someone else saw the joy it conveyed and bought it.

My two cents on this one:

From what I've experienced (not all that much, but bear with me) Electronic rights are a new frontier for publishers, and they tend to move as one on things like this. Random House tries to be forward thinking head-of-the-pack, which is why they're different, and my agent actually discussed audio rights with them, that they don't have mine is written into my contract, but some houses don't discuss that at all, and then it falls the the author to find their own audio stuff. I was warned not to let those rights slip from my hand, so when it comes time to look at all of that, it'll be interesting to see what I come up with! It's still all so new -- ! Not to the readers, but to the tradition-bound houses...

I'm guessing that they wanted to wait and see if the book would be a hit first. Despite being an 'international bestseller" as the cover touts, translated fiction doesn't always do well enough here to justify an audio production. I had never heard of The Exception and only found it browsing in a bookstore--has it been a "big book"?

I seem to remember (the gray cells are faulty though) when Harry was first published, you had to wait for the audio version to be available.

It was only the most recent HP books that had the simultaneous releases. I'm putting The Exception on my "watch" list for the audio version. It is probably as Roger said about waiting to see how the book does. Still when so many books are available it does make on wonder.

I just listened to Sue Grafton's new Kinsey Milhone, "T is for something that starts with T" book and enjoyed it very much. Fun.

You had me at "the best book I've read in 2007". I've put the book on my list (though I might wait for the audio version, if it ever comes available). Don't know that answer to your question, though...

Hope you're having a good visit with your family!

Audio rights are part of any standard publishing contract; in most cases the publisher holds them, but sometimes the author (or agent) retains them. Audio used to be an after-market thing only: book came out, book did well, audio rights were sold. Now more books are coming out in print and audio forms simultaenously. Random House is always at the forefront because they bought Listening Library some years ago, so they have an excellent in-house audio division. I believe LL does almost all simultaneous pub now. It is as Roger says, though -- a function of sales estimates and marketing guesses and what the publishers (print and audio) think will do well in audio. If the author doesn't hold the audio rights, he or she has little say in whether and to whom they're sold.

RH does own Listening Library, which is a large part of it. And some books which are by bestselling authors who are known commodities see simultaneous (or nearly so) audio debuts, even if they're from other houses. But not all books see audio because they can't/won't all sell well enough to cost-justify it (just my two cents, based on spotty information).

Random House actually owns Doubleday, so it's not a matter of the latter company not having access to the same audio publishing wing as the former.

Rather, I think Roger Sutton has identified the real issue: a publisher puts the extra investment into producing and marketing an audiobook only when it thinks that's a good bet. That approach favors authors and books that have proven themselves already.