Author Doyle Weldon Knight

Bio

In the town of Alexandria, in the great state of Louisiana, I was born on Thanksgiving Day in 1961 around 11:30am. My doctor didn’t get to carve the turkey, he delivered one.

I graduated high school and entered the oilfield in 1979. I met my, “Baby Girl” on New Years Eve of 1982 and two weeks before my birthday in 1983, she changed her last name to Knight. As the old saying goes, we didn’t have a pot to piss in nor a window to throw it out of. We worked hard and raised three decent members of society on our little place in the country.

In 2006, I was promoted to corporate level and we moved to Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. My youngest daughter graduated high school there. In 2009, we transferred to Macae, Brazil. By then, we were empty nesters. In 2013, mama was ready to come home. I reverted back to working a rotation and we moved back home.

In early 2016, during a shipyard project in Pascagoula, MS, I ran out of books to read. I asked around to other personnel to see if we could make a swap. A friend and colleague informed me that with my story telling abilities, I should be writing the stories and not reading them. After work, I fired up my laptop and, The Flip, began.

In March 2017, my gracious mother and true southern lady, succumbed to the ravages of cancer. I felt that I had been gut punched and pushed my writing to the side.

Life marched on and my twin grandsons were born and in December of 2018, I retired from the company after almost thirty years of service.

My wife convinced me to start writing again and in October 2019, my short story, The Matriarch Sin was published in the, Halloween Party 2019, anthology, by Devil’s Party Press.

I dug, The Flip, out of the filing cabinet and began the process of editing.

My only hope that you as a reader, spend a few enjoyable hours with Dinky and the gang. My Papaw would have called them, “Good, God-Fearing Folks”.

(Doyle Weldon Knight, August 2020)