# Tim Akers

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{{short description|American author of speculative fiction (born 1972)}}
{{Infobox writer
|name         = John Timothy Akers
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|pseudonym    = Tim Akers
|birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1972|12|12}}
|birth_place  = [Buncombe County, North Carolina](/source/Buncombe_County%2C_North_Carolina), U.S.
|death_date   = 
|death_place  = 
|occupation   = Author
|genre        = [Science fiction](/source/Science_fiction), [fantasy](/source/fantasy)
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|website      = {{URL|https://www.timakers.net/}}
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'''John Timothy Akers''' (born December 12, 1972) is an American author of [speculative fiction](/source/speculative_fiction).<ref name="Abt">Akers, Tim. "[https://www.timakers.net/about/ About]," on timakers.net.</ref><ref name="ISFDB">{{isfdb name|id=108248|name=Tim Akers}}</ref> He writes as '''Tim Akers'''.<ref name="Abt"/><ref name="ISFDB"/>

==Life==
John Timothy Akers was born in rural [Buncombe County, North Carolina](/source/Buncombe_County%2C_North_Carolina), the only son of John Nance Akers, a theologian.<ref name="Abt"/><ref name="GR">[https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/207694.Tim_Akers Tim Akers] on goodreads.com.</ref><ref name="NCBI">North Carolina. Register of Deeds. ''North Carolina Birth Indexes, 1800-2000''. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina State Archives, v. 61, p. 2387.</ref> He moved to [Chicago](/source/Chicago), [Illinois](/source/Illinois) for college, and has resided in that area since.<ref name="Abt"/><ref name="GR"/> He is married.<ref name="Abt"/><ref name="GR"/>

==Writing career==
Akers has been active in the speculative fiction field since 2004.<ref name="ISFDB"/> His work has appeared in various periodicals and anthologies, including ''[Apex Magazine](/source/Apex_Magazine)'', ''ChiZine'', ''[Clarkesworld Magazine](/source/Clarkesworld_Magazine)'', ''[Electric Velocipede](/source/Electric_Velocipede)'', ''[Interzone](/source/Interzone_(magazine))'', ''The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three'', ''[Strange Horizons](/source/Strange_Horizons)'', and ''Transmissions from Beyond''.<ref name="ISFDB"/>

==Bibliography==
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=== Burn Cycle===
#''Heart of Veridon'' (2009)
#''Dead of Veridon'' (2011)
*''Bones of Veridon'' (collection) (2013)

===The Hallowed War===
#''The Pagan Night'' (2016)
#''The Iron Hound'' (2017)
#''The Winter Vow'' (2018)

===Knight Watch===
# ''Knight Watch'' (2020)
# ''Valhellions'' (2022)

===The Spiritbinder Saga===
# ''Wraithbound'' (2023)

===Other novels===
*'' The Horns of Ruin'' (2010)

===Short stories===
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*"Memory Analog" (2004)
*"A Walking of Crows" (2006)
*"The Song" (2006)
*"Distro" (2006)
*"Toke" (2007)
*"The Algorithm" (2007)
*"A Soul Stitched to Iron" (2009)
*"The Quiet Front" (2013)
*"The Angel of Divine Intent" (2016)
*"A Death in the Wayward Drift" (2017)
}}

===Nonfiction===
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*"Faith in the Fantastic" (2012) 
}}

==Awards==
''The Pagan Night'' was a preliminary nominee for the 2017 [Gemmell Award](/source/David_Gemmell_Awards_for_Fantasy).<ref name="ISFDB"/>

==References==
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Category:1972 births
Category:Living people
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:American speculative fiction writers
Category:Novelists from North Carolina
Category:American male novelists
Category:21st-century American male writers

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