Western novelist and screenwriter Lee Martin grew up on cattle ranches in Northern California. Martin wrote and sold 43 short stories before turning to novels, with The Desperate Riders the 28th published, and with three screenplays now produced. The novel is also a motion picture. The Desperate Riders, written by Lee Martin, produced and directed by Michael Feifer in Tennessee, was released February 25, 2022, to select theaters as well as online streaming and TV on demand. The DVD will be released in April, 2022. Martin's novel The Siege at Rhyker's Station, with a screenplay by Lee Martin, was filmed in the mountains of Southern California in November of 2020, It was released in December of 2021 as Last Shoot Out, produced and directed by Michael Feifer. The film received a great review in Variety. And Martin has just been awarded a Spur Award by Western Writers of America for the screenplay.

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. Martin's novels, The Grant Conspiracy, The Last Wild Ride, and Fury at Cross Creek, all received rave reviews from True West Magazine and were also written as 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. Hang Town, one of Martin's most recent novels, now also optioned for the script version, received a fine review from Roundup Magazine: "Lee Martin gives the reader a plot and a cast of characters ready-made for a riveting teleplay. Action, romance, and revelation appear on every page." Martin is always working on the next novel and screenplay.

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