Kim Hornsby

Kim Hornsby

Kim writes toe curling romance and spine tingling suspense with an emphasis on happy endings.

Founder at Paisley Hat Productions
Screenwriter and Producer

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July 2019
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About Kim

Romance Writer, KIM HORNSBY is a produced screenwriter and USA Today Bestselling Author known for adapting her novels to screenplays. With 20 novels and as many screenplays Kim’s Family Adventure, BRAVING RAPIDS, Lifetime Thriller, SECRET LIFE OF MY OTHER WIFE, are on TUBI, Prime and Lifetime and her Christmas Romance, CHRISTMAS BY DESIGN has a 2025 release. Kim’s bestselling novels to screenplays, THE DREAM JUMPER’S PROMISE and CHRISTMAS IN CRYSTAL CREEK are in development to film in 2026 with Kim co-producing. As a Producer only, Kim has two horror movies and a Christmas Romance ready for release and another Christmas Romance in development. A mother to 20-somethings, dog owner, kayaker, and avid adventurer, Kim writes books and movies from a desk overlooking her gloriously peaceful forested acreage on an island off Seattle conjuring up entertainment with gutsy heroines amongst diverse and inclusive characters to represent real life.

Unique traits: USA Today Bestselling Author of 16 novels Dual Citizenship - U.S/Canada Former Scuba Instructor Former Pro Singer/Entertainer

Career Goals

As a writer, I'd like to steadily sell scripts while moving towards making higher quality films with theatrical releases.

Ideal Intellectual Properties

Waterfront - Netflix Hacks - Hulu Emily in Paris - Netflix Bad Sisters - Apple Your Friends and Neighbors - Apple

Life Experience

Achievements

Awards

  • Austin Film Festival - 2nd Rounder 5x
    (2024)

  • Holly Shorts - Semifinalist
    (2022)

  • Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder
    (2022)

  • Atlanta Film Festival - Semifinalist
    (2022)

  • Austin Film Festival 2nd Round
    (2021)

  • Holy Shorts - Quarterfinalist
    (2021)

  • Summit Film Festival - Winner
    (2021)

  • Holiday & Family - Emerging Screenwriters - Finalist
    (2021)

  • Vancouver Badass Film Festival - Finalist
    (2020)

  • Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder
    (2020)

  • Page Turner Screenplays
    (2020)

  • Table Read My Screenplay - Top Ten - Mystery/Suspense
    (2020)

  • Bigfoot Script Challenge Feature Winner & Fellowship Recipient
    (2019)

  • Adapted Screenplay Competition - Official Selection
    (2019)

  • Canadian Cinematography Awards - 1st Plce
    (2019)

  • Imaginarium Convention Screenplay Awards - Finalist
    (2019)

  • Imagine This Women's International Film Festival - Quarter Finalist
    (2019)

  • Burbank International Film Festival - Finalist
    (2018)

  • Los Angeles Independent Film Festival - Grand Prize Feature
    (2018)

  • Los Angeles Film Awards - Best First Screenplay
    (2018)

  • Stage 32 Rom Com Script Contest - Semi Finalist

Work Experience

Credits

  • Braving Rapids

    Braving Rapids (2023 - 2025)
    TV Movie by Compassionate Disaster Films Writer/Producer Feature on TUBI, Prime, YouTube Sky TV, Roku about a family river rafting trip.

  • Chat

    Chat
    Shor by Brad M Johnson (Thriller) Writer/Producer

Loglines

  • The Dream Jumper's Promise - OPTIONED

    The Dream Jumper's Promise - OPTIONED Budget: $5M - $10M | Thriller Mystery ADAPTED FROM IPNo longer able to tell dreams from reality, a troubled widow turns to the person she least trusts, an old boyfriend who has a bizarre claim he can enter dreams and believes clues to her husband's mysterious disappearance can be found in her subconscious.

  • Christmas in Crystal Creek - Optioned

    Christmas in Crystal Creek - Optioned Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance Family Adapted from a Bestselling Novel - OPTIONED A Country Music star trapped in a small town during a road closure and snowstorm, will miss her career-changing Christmas Eve concert until a brief escape window arises and she must decide between headlining the concert where her nemesis waits to take her place and helping a child get to his heart transplant.

  • Braving Rapids - PRODUCED

    Braving Rapids - PRODUCED Budget: $100K - $1M | Family Adventure When a young girl rescues a wolf cub in the river on a family rafting trip, she reconciles her adoption abandonment issues with her birth mother when she must surrender the beloved cub to wildlife authorities at the end of the trip for the cub's own good.

  • Hurricane Season

    Hurricane Season Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance Comedy Desperate to save his job, a neurotic Rolling Stain reporter ventures to a remote tropical island for an interview and takes refuge at a free-spirited pop star's beach house in a hurricane while hiding his phobias for water, wind, and girls.

  • Necessary Detour

    Necessary Detour Budget: $1M - $5M | Mystery Romance A female rock star quits show business and hides from a deranged stalker at a lake house only to find new danger in the form of mysterious neighbors who move in to the abandoned house across the bay.

  • Moody & The Ghost

    Moody & The Ghost Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance Fantasy After an accident that took her sight and telepathy, a kickass ghost hunter with a popular YouTube show finds both senses restored in the presence of a sea captain ghost from 1850 who strikes a deal to enable her if she'll help solve his murder.

Education

  • School of Hard Knocks
    (1994-2022)

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