Western novelist and screenwriter Lee Martin grew up on cattle ranches in Northern California. Martin began writing in the third grade and, later in life, wrote and sold 43 short stories before turning to novels with 23 now published. Martin is also a prolific writer of screenplays, mostly Westerns. Martin's recent novels, The Grant Conspiracy, The Last Wild Ride, and Fury at Cross Creek, all received rave reviews from True West Magazine and were based on Martin's screenplays, as is Fast Ride to Boot Hill. In Mysterious Ways, Martin's new modern suspense Western, received great critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews and Midwest Book Reviews. Trail of the Fast Gun is the first book of seven in The Darringer Brothers series, all of which have been reissued in paperback and ebook by Vaca Mountain Press, along with many of Martin's earlier novels. Martin left the practice of law to write full-time, primarily concentrating on Western screenplays and novels, and often converting one to the other. Martin's screenplay for Shadow on the Mesa, starring Kevin Sorbo, Wes Brown, and Gail O'Grady, was based on Martin's novel of the same title (Five Star Publishing, 2014).

The movie was the second-highest-rated and second-most-watched original movie in Hallmark Movie Channel's history when it premiered in 2013. The film also won the prestigious Wrangler Award given by the National Cowboy & Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City for Best Original TV Western Movie. Several of Martin's screenplays are currently under option by producers. Two of Martin's screenplays, The Siege at Rhyker's Station, filmed in the Fall of 2020, and The Desperate Riders, filmed in early 2021, will soon be available on DVD and the novels will follow. To learn more, visit Lee Martin Westerns on Facebook.