Yep, I TRIED with TWO Aggie Morton books. I just couldn't get into them, which was disappointing. And, I hear you on the "sounds like a TV pitch," novel; if I read another one of those I'll be very annoyed... we're encouraged to write "high concept" middle grade novels because The Big Hope (at least from editors?) is that they'll get picked up in this target-rich people-watching-more-small-screen-adaptions world, but sometimes the heart of those types of books gets left right out.
Yep, I TRIED with TWO Aggie Morton books. I just couldn't get into them, which was disappointing. And, I hear you on the "sounds like a TV pitch," novel; if I read another one of those I'll be very annoyed... we're encouraged to write "high concept" middle grade novels because The Big Hope (at least from editors?) is that they'll get picked up in this target-rich people-watching-more-small-screen-adaptions world, but sometimes the heart of those types of books gets left right out.