Lyn F•••

About

On the record

Lyn F••• should be called Lyndiana Jones. He has survived enraged grizzlies, erupting volcanoes, Japanese swordfights and giant squid tentacles. He has been entrapped by FBI agents and held at gunpoint by renegade soldiers. He has sung with Bulgaria’s bluesmaster Vasko the Patch and met with Mexico’s Zapatista Army commander Marcos. He has been thrown out of forbidden temples in southern India and passed out in sweat lodges off the Alaskan coast. His navel has been inhabited by beetles and his genitals have been cursed by eunuchs. He has shared coffee with presidents, beer with pirates and goat guts with polygamists. He has contracted malaria, typhoid, salmonella and lovesickness around the world. All these adventures are in his books Sacred Ground & Holy Water or Fresh Wind & Strange Fire. Lyn’s writing habit began when heavy snow sealed him for weeks into a log cabin amidst the thick timber of Canada’s craggy mountains. Life was forever changed. With nothing to do but observe minute details and reflect upon them, he spent silent solitary hours grasping for exact words to convey his experience to others, for when that connection would be restored. Meditations transformed into magazine articles. From eye to mind to pen, the journeys of his life were distilled into the stories that now make up his first book, to the very last one written on an isolated Mexican ranch under a fiery sunset and the influence of tequila. His spirit is within the pages too. If you aren’t currently holed up at a snowy cabin or a sunny ranch but wish you were, Sacred Ground & Holy Water or Fresh Wind & Strange Fire can take you there. Follow Lyn online at twitter.com/lynfuchs and facebook.com/lynfuchs.