Doyle Weldon Knight

Doyle Weldon Knight was born in Alexandria, Louisiana on Thanksgiving Day in 1961 to a mother born on Friday the 13th of 1939. Before his fifth birthday, his father was tragically killed in an automobile accident.

In 1970, his mother remarried and the fourth grader named Weldon was uprooted from Rapides Parish and moved to Sabine Parish. Work was expected by all family members and Weldon and his stepbrothers worked hard. They played even harder and loved the benefits of the great southern outdoors. Hunting and fishing became a lifelong passion for Weldon.

In 1979 Weldon entered the offshore environment of southern Louisiana. He met his soulmate and they wed in 1983. He worked multitude of roles from oilfield laborer to corporate management over the next forty years, both domestically and abroad, with residences in Scotland and Brazil. He always loved to read; mostly the macabre and the supernatural fiction authors.

During a shipyard project in 2016, Weldon was asking other personnel onboard if they had any books that he could swap out with. He had read the books he had brought and wanted to exchange. A couple of colleagues suggested that with his story telling skills, he should write books instead of reading them. He tried writing and found a passionate enjoyment that has persisted since. The origin of the novel, The Flip, was started with the original first draft completed in two weeks.

The grand lady that was born on Friday the thirteenth in 1939 succumbed to cancer on the night of her last remaining unwed granddaughters wedding day in March 2017. Weldon took a sabbatical from writing for a while and after semi-retiring from the oilfield at the end of 2018, restarted writing interests in 2019. Nothing like twin grandsons to kick start the anti-depression train; Chuga-chuga-Choo-Choo!

His short story, The Matriarch Sin, was published in the Anthology: Halloween Party 2019 by Devil's Party Press in October 2019.

Weldon's debut novel, The Flip, was released August 1st, 2020 by True Southern Gentleman Publishing.