Critics Sniff, But Author Martina Cole Has The Most Loyal Fans Around

Cole “might be the bestselling British author today, but it’s certainly not through publicity. She’s built her readers from the ground up. And now they’re some of the most loyal around. There’s a huge amount of snobbery towards commercial fiction in literary circles and although you’ll see Ian Rankin on Newsnight these days, Cole still finds herself at the receiving end of a certain amount of patronising comments.