William Akers

Author of Your Screenplay Sucks! 100 Ways To Make It Great, William M. Akers is a WGA Lifetime Member and has had three feature films produced from his screenplays. He has written for studios, independent producers, and network television. After teaching at Vanderbilt University for 19 years, he created and chairs Belmont University's Motion Pictures department, a Variety Top 40 Film School. His novel, Mrs. Ravenbach's Way, was published in 2016. Akers consults with screenwriting clients around the world, speaks enough French to schmooze his way out of a traffic ticket, and was a Jeopardy! contestant. He didn't win. Visit his Your Screenplay Sucks website.