Congratulations to all those whose pitches were picked by #XpoNorth and comisserations to the rest of us. Still, it was an interesting and worthwhile exercise. Many thanks to those who liked or retweeted my attempts - and here's to the next time!
They know the victim and have identified the murderer. Can they reveal the truth?
Dumfries & Galloway. Two ethical police detectives must protect a killer and cross moral boundaries in a celebrity murder case to prevent a deadly environmental nightmare for Scotland. #XpoNorth
Three friends – one killer, one cop, one dead.
My name is Ginnie. I am a serial killer. My ghost writer and my best friend think I’m making it up. Can they take the risk that they’ve got it right?
#XpoNorth
#XpoNorth Three little girls born in different times and places lived their lives as one. One life. Each living the others lives. Impossible. Impossible? Don't be so sure. The ties that bind are beyond the garve, beyond understanding, and there is a debt that must be paid.
#XpoNorth A gifted surgeon, disgraced and long forgotten, seeks opportunity to create life. Injured, dying boy offers this. A modern Frankenstein? Oh, so much more than that! An enigma, a shadow, a case no D.I. would ever want. Now you see him - don't you?
#XpoNorth You're alone. Nothing you can see or touch is familiar. Cubic monoliths like silent ghosts, feral tribes that threaten, cities that howl after dark. Is this all there is? You and your dog, your only friend, searching for someone who looks and behaves like you.
No body. No evidence. Was there a crime? 16 yr old self-reliant loner Megan knows there was. She witnessed the brutal murder in the hills above Port Graig and no-one in the small Scottish town believes her… but the killer and a young man called Fraser. #XpoNorth#YA
#literary#JWPitchFestival
'There is no call so loud as that of the blood'
Helena's attempt to deny her daughter's paternity evokes a reaction from an unseen past that threatenns her family's future.
#CaneloPit Waking in an icy pool and oblivious of her past, Jess struggles through a devastated world - plagued by evidence of alien invasion and menaced by feral tribes. Only one other person can validate her experience, penetrate The Programme and struggle to survive.
#SF
Shattered family relationships in a remote Pyrenean village lead to suicide and murder. Baffling psychic links between three strangers and an historic rape question the very survival of the protagonists.
#CaneloPit#WF#T