Akers is a Lifetime Member of the WGA and has written screenplays and television for fifteen years.

He teaches screenwriting and filmmaking at Vanderbilt University. His book, Your Screenplay Sucks!, 100 Ways To Make It Great, was published in August by Michael Wiese Productions. Rare among how-to screenplay book authors, Akers has actually had his work produced.

His script for ERNEST RIDES AGAIN, fifth in the legendary Ernest series of comedies, was produced and directed by John C. Cherry. The film starred Jim Varney and Linda Kash. THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE was produced by Margaret Matheson and Mark Forstater for Zenith Productions, London. Directed by Stuart Orme, it starred Stephanie Beacham, Mel Smith, Jane Horrocks, Richard O'Brien, and Geraldine James. Akers's screenplay for THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE was nominated for a CableAce.

He adapted Simon Murray's million selling non-fiction account of his five years in the French Foreign Legion as SIMON: AN ENGLISH LEGIONNAIRE, an epic love story set against the Algerian revolution. It was independently produced and directed by Martin Huberty and stars Paul Fox and Kate Maberly.

He has written feature screenplays for Bruce Gilbert & MGM, John C. Cherry & Disney, and Jon Avnet & Universal Studios.

Akers's screenplay 105 DEGREES AND RISING, about the Fall of Saigon, is currently under option to Echo Lake Productions and Overture Films in Los Angeles. Maria Bello is attached to star and Jon Amiel to direct. He has just delivered the eleventh rewrite.

In television, he has written for LOIS AND CLARK starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher for Warner Bros. television and ABC, STRANGE LUCK for Karl Schaefer / Unreality, Inc. for CBS, which starred Frances Fisher and D.B. Sweeney. Akers was a staff writer on the original EERIE, INDIANA for NBC, produced by Karl Schaefer / Unreality, Inc.. He was supervising producer of MOTOR MADNESS for TNN and William Byrd Productions.

Most recently, he co-produced and did second unit photography on the feature documentary THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF THE REAL BEVERLY HILLBILLIES for Dub Cornett and Herzog / Cowen productions, Los Angeles. He co-produced URIM AND THUMMIM, a feature documentary for Afterglow Productions, Nashville, which showed at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival and the San Fransisco Film Festival.

He just optioned THE SUMMER FLETCHER GREEL LOVED ME, a feature screenplay, to Ruckus Films in Nashville. Coke Sams and Clarke Gallivan, producers.

Akers is currently adapting the book, THE RESCUE ARTIST, after selling a pitch to PalmStar Entertainment and Blumhouse Productions in Los Angeles. Kevin Frakes, Beth O'Neil, Jason Blum, producers.

He is on the board of the Nashville Screenwriters Conference, speaks reasonably decent French, and was a Jeopardy! contestant.