What's Up at THE HAT?

 

At Paisley Hat Productions, we work to bring you thought-provoking entertainment with a healthy dose of hope. Female protagonists find love, kick butt, take names, and stand up for themselves.

KIM HORNSBY, a 16X published Author and 3X produced Screenwriter has a vast portfolio of available Spec Scripts as well as having several optioned properties (book and script) on the docket as a writer/producer.

Always looking for financing and production partners who bring something to the table, Kim will be at AFM in November 2025 and Cannes May 2026.

PAISLEY HAT - IN DEVELOPMENT

🌴THE DREAM JUMPER'S PROMISE - Written by Kim Hornsby, Adapted from a Bestselling Novel

🎄CHRISTMAS IN CRYSTAL CREEK - Written by Kim Hornsby, Co-produced with Compassionate Disaster Films, Partially funded, Distribution Secured.

🎄THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT - Written by Betsy Morris, Holiday Romance, Co-Production with M&M Films

Available Scripts

Seeking a Sale or Production Partners 

🎤NECESSARY DETOUR  - Written by Kim Hornsby, Adapted from a Bestselling Novel

🗡COMPLEX KILLER - Written by Kim Hornsby and Clarence Williams

🎄SLIPPERY SLOPE CHRISTMAS - Written by Kim Hornsby

💖10 DARES - Rom Com, Written by Kim Hornsby

🌴HURRICANE SEASON - Rom Com, Written by Kim Hornsby

💘Love, Cupid - Valentine's Day Rom Com, Written by Kim Hornsby

🏥SUPPRESSED - Written by Sue C. Dugan, YA Drama/Suspense, Adapted

Co-Productions

Compassionate Disaster Films/Erich Cannon - The Cuckoo Clock, His Monster, Braving Rapids,                                                                                        Christmas in Crystal Creek

KAI Films/Derek Johnson - Interior Designer (Thriller)Writer/Producer

Open Window Entertainment/Debra Pralle- Murder at the Writers' Retreat - Co-Production

She Speaks Productions/Cathy Yonek - Chocolate For Christmas, Marry Me in Greece

Optioned Work

CANVAS MEDIA - Spying on Neighbors, Written by Kim Hornsby

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FOR KIM'S PORTFOLIO, VISIT THE ISA SITE WHERE SHE'S ON THE DEVELOPMENTAL SLATE.

https://www.networkisa.org/profile/kimhornsby

Paisley Hat Productions

 

Paisley Hat Productions is an Indie Film Company out of Washington State that makes low budget, Indie movies for distribution on streaming sites and networks.

Our intent at Paisley Hat is to give people hope in their entertainment as well as having them remember the movie's story long after viewing. 

We heartily support Women In Film #WomeninFilm

The company is headed by KIM HORNSBY, Producer, Writer and one of ISA's Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2024.

Paisley Hat does not take unsolicited queries at this time.

Look for upcoming films produced by PAISLEY HAT PRODUCTIONS

RELEASED MAY 2025

Braving Rapids - A young girl rescues a wolf cub in the river on a family rafting trip and reconciles adoption abandonment issues after having to surrender the beloved cub to wildlife authorities at the end of the trip.

AVAILABLE ON TUBI, Roku, Prime, Fandango etc. 

Braving Rapids streaming: where to watch online?

Christmas in Crystal Creek - 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. 

In Development partnered with Compassionate Disaster Films

Listed on ISA 

The Dream Jumper's Promise - No 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 are in her subconscious.

Book to Film

In Development - Paisley Hat Productions

Distribution with Redwoods Studios to Warner Media

Listed on ISA

Optioned by Paisley Hat/Kim

THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT - Holiday Romance

Written by Betsy Morris, this story tells the tale of two women heartbroken at Christmas and the events that change everything for them both -- an author and a ghost.

SUPRRESSED - YA Drama Suspense

Adapted and written by Sue C. Dugan, A teen paraplegic girl must make the choice to have North America's first head transplant to a donor body or spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.

Two Horror Films are on the distribution horizon for Paisley Hat Productions.

HIS MONSTER and THE CUCKOO CLOCK, co-produced with Compassionate Disaster Films )not written by Kim Hornsby.)

More About Kim Hornsby

www.kimhornsby.info

Christmas Romances!

#1 Bestselling Suspense Author Kim Hornsby talking about Christmas Romances. Hey, did you switch genres, Kim? I thought you were Suspense. I mean I know Christmas can be very suspenseful with everything that needs to get done to have 1 perfect day but...

Mele Kalikimaka everyone! Kim here.

And no, I didn't exactly switch genres. I've always written Contemporary Romance Novellas as my side hustle. I publish them, sometimes they're free, sometimes I write under the name Kiki Abbott and then I unpublish them. It's complicated. I write them quickly, price them at free or 99 cents and enjoy having something different to offer my readers.

Last year this time, my screenplay agent asked me if I had a Christmas Romance screenplay because she'd just pitched my book Christmas in Whistler to a producer. I took to the computer and wrote a screenplay from that. Up to that point, I'd only written a feature film thriller screenplay and was working on a TV pilot about ghosts. But the Christmas theme just rolled off my brain and so I quickly plotted another TV movie screenplay set at Christmas. That was last October. Cut to a year later and I have sold a Christmas TV movie screenplay to a producer who plans to make the film next Spring (it was my 3rd effort) and now have interest in the 2nd screenplay that I turned into a novella called Christmas at Crystal Creek. That one is looking pretty darned good for getting on film next year too. We have an actress interested in the lead and she'd be wonderful! I can't tell you any more than this right now but stay tuned for a big announcement when I can. I announce on my Kim Hornsby Beach Club site:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/188081488503196/

Christmas at Crystal Creek is available here:

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07L6QL15X
Apple, Nook, Kobo etc:https://books2read.com/u/3nKgDB

Christmas is such a fun time of year and I love having it in my head while I write. And, I love those Christmas Box Sets where you get 10 books for .99. Each year I compile one of those with 9 other authors and this year our set started early to get more sales and hopefully achieve USA Today Bestseller Status in late October. Fingers crossed. Christmas at Mistletoe Lodge is a set of 10 novellas, all with a Mistletoe Lodge somewhere in the story. Cute, right? I'm writing mine now and loving the story about a psychologist who hasn't been out of her house in a year but has to attend a Christmas wedding at Mistletoe Lodge.
We are donating a portion of all proceeds to St. Jude Children's Hospital, a charity we used last year, as well. Most of the authors are already USA Today Bestselling Authors or NY Times Bestselling Authors so you know the stories will be fantastic.
As well as this, I've published a Christmas Cookbook to drive readers over to the box set! The recipes are based around cold weather needs but we have mac and cheese, cookies, and lots of recipes in there that can be made in sweltering hot weather too.
I hope you'll consider downloading the cookbook to get our sales up, to get  noticed, to get more people on our box set site to reach USA Today status and also send those kids at St. Judes a nice big check in January when we get paid.
Thanks ahead of time!

Christmas at Mistletoe Lodge LINKS

Amazon - www.bit.ly/MistletoeLodge

Nook - www.bit.ly/NookMistletoeLodge

iBooks - www.bit.ly/AppleMistletoeLodge

Kobo - www.bit.ly/KoboMistletoeLodge

 FREE Cookbook Links

Apple - https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1477932009
Kobo - https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/christmas-at-mistletoe-lodge-cookbook-and-crafts
AMAZON Coming Soon!

Ghost Meets Scooby Doo

Here on the Beach, we have author and screenwriter, Kim Hornsby!


Hello Readers! I've delved into a new series and am having a blast writing it. Finally, I gave myself permission to write 1st person, my favorite, from the viewpoint of a slightly snarky person. How wonderful is that?
Moody & The Ghost books are written from the viewpoint of a 28-year-old woman who has gone blind in a car accident but finds she can see in the presence of a ghost. The spirit just happens to be a very handsome sea captain from the 1850's and as Bryndle Moody copes with his comings and goings and the life of a blind person, she gets in all kinds of sticky situations.

The series was originally written as a TV series, the first book being the Pilot so if it ends leaving you wanting more next week, you'll know why. That's how TV is written. In the promo to try to get a producer to pick up the series, I say it's like the movie GHOST meets Scooby Doo. There's a fun team of paranormal investigators led by Bryndle and they travel around in a van called the Marshmallow. But also, there's this amazing romance that comes to fruition in Book 3 that is reminiscent of the movie Ghost with Demi Moore.

It's ghosts, suspense, humor, romance and recipes!

DEAD AHEAD - BOOK 1

Ghosts love Bryndle Moody. 
Until recently.

After a car accident that took her husband’s life and her eyesight, Youtube celebrity and paranormal investigator, Moody, finds she has also lost her ability to communicate with ghosts. When she mysteriously inherits a house on the Oregon Coast, Bryn and her team set out from her Seattle houseboat to investigate. The house has many surprises and as Bryn desperately tries to restore her clairvoyance, she discovers an elusive inhabitant with the ability to salvage her business and her reason for living. 
For a price.

Check out the series on Amazon.
The first book, DEAD AHEAD, is only .99.

Do You Buy Box Sets?

On the beach this week, we're doing a survey for readers. It's fast, it's easy and we'd appreciate you taking less than a minute to let us know your answers.

Survey

1. How many books do you read in a month?
2. What do you usually spend for a book?
3. Do you buy box sets on Kindle? If so, do you read all the books or only some?

List your answers in the comments and thank you for taking the time to help us!

I LOVE The Beach!!!

Today on the beach, we have Kim Hornsby, Bestselling Suspense Novelist and screenwriter. Take it away, Kim...


I love the beach!

And looking out at the ocean. That's why my brand as an author is associated with the word BEACH. I write beach reads (entertaining fast-paced, story driven) suspense books and envision people on a beach reading it in print. Or reading on a Kindle, although they can be hard to see in bright sunlight!
In THE DREAM JUMPER'S PROMISE, there are many beach scenes because the protagonist is a scuba dive shop owner and a diver.
The second book THE DREAM JUMPER'S SECRET begins on a dive but the story is quickly taken to Seattle and then on to Afghanistan where most of the country is beach with no ocean.
The third book THE DREAM JUMPER'S PURSUIT travel all over the place on a manhunt, ending up in Nicaragua and on the side of Volcano Mombacho. Not alot of beach in that one but definite adventure and high action story.
NECESSARY DETOUR has the protag living on a lake, swimming, pulling her canoe up on her beach, then the story moves to a sailboat off Seattle.

ROCKY BLUFF is set on Maui and features another scuba instructor. Beach plays a small role as they hunt for a stalker and killer in the Wailuku area of Maui.

GIRL OF HIS DREAM is all beach as the hero teaches diving and gets involved with her student while teaching him to deep dive.
DREAM COME TRUE has no beach whatsoever seeing it's a Christmas story set in a small town outside Seattle during the holiday season. But, it's a great beach read.
All books can be found on Amazon HERE.

As a person, I'm always longing to get back to the beach, the ocean, scuba. Writing about settings that make me happy, keep my mind in a happy place. See where I'm going with this? Happiness is a mindset and I'm setting my mind to a happy, sandy place!

My brand is Beach. I'm a Beach Girl. My books are Beach Reads.
My first one is free...
GIRL OF HIS DREAM

Kim Hornsby is a National Bestselling Author of Suspense who’s won numerous awards, including Chanticleer’s prestigious Supernatural Thriller First Place for The Dream Jumper’s Promise, which is currently in development for a feature film. Once a Maui scuba instructor, Kim now divides her time between Seattle and Maui where she writes overlooking the ocean.

Find Kim's books HERE

FREE BOOK WEEK!

FREE BOOK WEEK!!

eBook Giveaways from Kim Hornsby - NO PURCHASE NECESSARY

*Enter to Win eBooks*

Romantic Suspense - Necessary Detour by Amazon #1 Bestselling Author Kim Hornsby - Entry Closed Nov 26th

Click Here  https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/1f8605541e958516#ts-dei



Sexy Romance with Suspense Elements - Girl of his Dream - Prequel to Dream Jumper Series  - Entry Closed Dec 4th

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Supernatural Suspense Thriller with Romantic Elements - The Dream Jumper's Promise  - Entry Closed Nov 23rd

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Drop in Price for the Dream Jumper Series  to $1.99 - 

December 1-5

5 Books - Suspense! Supernatural! Romance!

AMAZON LINK http://amzn.com/B01NCMQNDP

AND, until the end of January...

ROMANCING THE HOLIDAYS

12 novels for only 99 cents!

Proceeds Benefit Breast Cancer Research

As always, if you read and enjoy, I'd appreciate a review, no matter how short. I know it's hard to write reviews so just pretend we are talking and you're telling me what you liked about the book.
Thank you for supporting Indie Authorship.

Kim


Kim Hornsby is a #1 Amazon Bestselling Author with a Book Series (Dream Jumper) optioned for film, due to begin production next year. Follow her on Amazon here and be sure to sign up for her monthly newsletter to get more info on Freebies, Giveaways and News!