Last week agents from Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh received more than 2,000 pitches for books on the first inaugural #PitchCB day. Authors had to sum up their book in 140 characters or less and used Twitter. Due to the success of this event, BBC Radio 4 began soliciting pitches on Curtis Browns behalf and hilarity has ensued.
A modern-day retelling of Jonah and the Whale where Jonah is stuck in a Coke machine @BBCRadio4
— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) August 3, 2015
@BBCRadio4 A boy has to win a rollerskating competition or bears will kill his dad
— bea_ker (@bea_ker) August 3, 2015
.@BBCRadio4 Love blossoms on the competitive devilled egg-eating circuit.
— sun tzu fun tzu (@suntzufuntzu) August 3, 2015
.@BBCRadio4 A complaint to HR about distasteful references to ‘blood-sucking taxes’ leads to courtroom drama for Vampire Accountants
— Magrat (@Wangleberry) August 3, 2015
@BBCRadio4 Due to a bizarre set of mix ups, a bear is elected Pope. Can he bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear war?
— Mark O’Neill (@marxculture) August 3, 2015
@BBCRadio4 A jilted lover must retrieve his coat from his ex-grilfriend but she really likes it and won’t give it back.
— samuelpanther (@iamsammypanther) August 3, 2015
An innocent man is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit. His only was to freedom? A dance-off with all his parallel selves. @BBCRadio4
— Glenn (@justabloodygame) August 3, 2015
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.