FUNK 58 Author's Note
Published January 31, 2025
I debated adding an author's note to FUNK 58.
In the end it wasn't right. This is my book but really you have to read it as his book you know.
Adding an author's note to that would have pulled the reader out of it, whether at the beginning or the end. It wasn't right.
But I do want to talk about it and write about it.
Write about writing it. The process. And where I'm going with it from here, now that it's out, published for the world to enjoy.
I began writing FUNK at the beginning of 2024, after returning from Asia Trip 7, I finished it a year later during my time in Cartagena, Colombia, and the days after back in England.
I wrote a lot in Cartagena. Mostly at my local coffee shops. Writing was a refuge, it kept me happy and entertained, it cheered me up in a place I wasn't connecting with.
My view on this novel is that it's a beautiful thing.
A great thing. A book I wanted to read. That's the book I wrote. I'm sure some will absolutely fucking hate it and that's fine. But I'm sure many (hopefully, definitely) more will love it.
Writing a novel is a different thing now. In 2025. More an exercise in your own determination and intelligence. A self-imposed test.
The books for me. But you can read it too.
That'll be fine, that’ll be nice.
It's wide open for interpretation.
I know what it is. I know who the narrator is. His life, his reality, his disease, his madness? I know what this book actually means, what it actually is. But it's open for you to view from whichever angle connects.
The one you believe. That's the truth.
Sure. What?
Hey,
Hi!!
I love this story. This world.
And. I'm still writing it. I'm going to do versions of Editions. So the first one up is the First version of the First Edition, there will be more.
Enjoy it. I have. I am.