I keep on getting seg faulted after I end my first for loop, and for the life of me I don't why. The file I'm scanning is just 18 strings in 18 lines. I thinks the problem is the way I'm mallocing the double pointer called picks, but I don't know exactly why. I'm am only trying to scanf strings that are less than 15 chars long, so I don't see the problem. Can someone please help.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#define MAX_LENGTH 100

int main( int argc,char *argv[] )
{

   char* string = malloc( 15*sizeof(char) );
   char** picks = malloc(15*sizeof(char*));
   FILE* pick_file = fopen( argv[l], "r" );
   int num_picks;


   for( num_picks=0 ; fgets( string, MAX_LENGTH, pick_file ) != NULL ; num_picks++ )
     {
       scanf( "%s", picks+num_picks );
     }
   //this is where i seg fault
   int x;
   for(x=0; x<num_picks;x++)
     printf("s\n", picks+x);
}