Quote Originally Posted by barry View Post
Speaking of great australian literature, I have heard from a very reliable source that the draft version of Christos Tsiolkas's 'The Slap' as sent to publishers was actually called the 'The tap' and was based losely around the career of Tom Derickx. Apparently the editors didnt think it would cut through to the general populas, and asked for changes.


Its always been in the back of my mind that if he had only based it on a more established and popular ruckman like Calum Sinclair, it would have had a world-wide audience and really set the kindle world alight. It could have broken the Amazon servers. Oh well, we'll never know.
Ludwig! Somebody's mentioning Tom Derickx!