Western novelist and screenwriter Lee Martin grew up on cattle ranches in Northern California. Pearl Hart & the Violent Men will be Martin's 29th traditional Western novel, which is also written as a screenplay. Martin concentrates on action Western scripts, but also writes in other genres. Martin's credits include three Western movies now produced. The Desperate Riders, written by Lee Martin and based on Martin's novel, produced and directed by Michael Feifer in Tennessee, was released February 25, 2022. Martin's novel The Siege at Rhyker's Station, with a screenplay by Lee Martin, was filmed in the mountains of Southern California. It was released in December of 2021 as Last Shoot Out, produced and directed by Michael Feifer, and Martin was recently awarded a Spur Award by Western Writers of America for the Best Western 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 (first edition published by 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 & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City for Best Original TV Western Movie. The novel is now available in paperback and ebook.Hang Town, one of Martin's most recent novels, now also optioned for the screen, received a fine review from Western Writers of America: "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." -Robert Dwyer, Roundup Magazine.In Mysterious Ways, Martin's modern suspense Western, received great critical acclaim from Kirkus Reviews, Midwest Book Reviews, and Roundup Magazine. Martin is always working on the next novel and screenplay.

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