Kim is a USA Today Bestselling Author who adapts novels to scripts with a scalpel and a crystal ball.
Kim Hornsby is a sold and optioned screenwriter as well as a USA TODAY Bestselling Author with fifteen published novels and numerous screenplays and scripts. Formerly a Maui scuba instructor by day and a lounge singer by night, Kim hung up her dive regulator and microphone to entertain the world with stories. Living in Taiwan while adopting her daughter in 2002, Kim started writing a novel to pass the five month wait on paperwork.
A Compendium level member of the Northwest Screenwriter's Guild, her Supernatural Suspense, The Dream Jumper 3-book series was optioned and has received accolades in screenwriting contests, including winning the Hollywood Fellowship at Bigfoot Script Challenge at the Seattle Film Summit, semi-finaling in the Burbank International Film Festival and winning Best First Screenplay with LAIFF and Best Adapted Screenplay. She has two Christmas Romance TV movies in development with filming planned in 2020.
Kim enjoys adapting her novels to script and now adapts everything (including yesterday's shopping list) when she isn't teaching her BOOK TO SCRIPT technique at Seattle's PNWA, ECWC and other writing conferences in the Pacific Northwest. She is represented by JD DeWitt of 5x5 Productions.
Kim resides with her husband and kids in the Seattle area where she writes overlooking a tree-lined lake with footwarming muses in the form of large, hairy rescue dogs.
  • Writer (6 Credits)
    CHAT
    Short Script
    Dream Jumper
    Short Script
    Hurricane Season
    Screenplay
    Moody & The Ghost
    Television Script
    Necessary Detour
    Screenplay
    The Dream Jumper's Promise
    Screenplay
  • Producer (1 Credit)
    Murder at the Writers Retreat2026
    Short
  • Director (1 Credit)
    Murder at the Writers Retreat2026
    Short
Finalist
CHAT
Phoenix Film Festival
Phoenix
2021
Top Ten
CHAT
Shoot Your Short
LA
2021
Finalist
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Vancouver Badass Film Festival
Vancouver, Canada
2020
2nd Rounder
Moody & The Ghost
Austin Film Festival
Austin Texas
2020
Top 100
Moody & The Ghost
Table Read My Screenplay
ISA - Los Angeles
2020
Top 20
Moody & The Ghost
Adapted Screenplay Competition
LA
2020
Top Ten - Mystery/Suspense
Necessary Detour
Table Read My Screenplay
ISA - Los Angeles
2020
2nd Rounder
CHAT
Austin Film Festival
Austin Texas
2020
Long S'play, Finalist
Moody & The Ghost
The Imaginarium Independent Film Festival
Louisville, KY
2019
Winner of Screenplay Competition
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Canadian Cinematography Awards
Toronto, Canada
2019
Feature Screenplay Winner
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Bigfoot Script Challenge, Feature Award Winner
Seattle Film Summit
2019
Long S'play, Finalist
The Dream Jumper's Promise
The Imaginarium Independent Film Festival
Louisville, KY
2019
Official Selection
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Imagine This Women's International Film Festival
Brooklyn, NY
2019
Best Feature Screenplay
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Royal Wolf Film Awards
Los Angeles
2018
Best First Screenplay
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Los Angeles Film Awards
Los Angeles
2018
Best Feature Screenplay
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
Los Angeles
2018
Semi-Finalist - Feature Screenplay
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Burbank International Film Festival
Burbank, CA
2018
Selected Screenplay
The Dream Jumper's Promise
Adapted Screenplay Competition
Los Angeles
2018
College
Capilano College
Outdoor Education
High School
Moira Secondary School - Belleville, Ontario
ARTS
Kim used to teach scuba in Hawaii, back when wearing a wetsuit all day seemed glamorous. Now she writes in a quiet office, living out her characters' adventures in her imaginative brain with two furry muses at her feet who prefer not to be known as dogs.
Fall seven times, get up eight
Kim is a USA Today Bestselling Author who adapts novels to scripts with a scalpel and a crystal ball.
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