In the space
of three years he went from being lauded as the UK's most successful chancellor
of the exchequer who had declared the «
end of boom and bust» and «the beginning
of a new Golden Age» to presiding over a country in a debilitating credit crunch amid Labour in - fighting, a breakdown in relations with many colleagues including his chancellor, and ultimately a failure to dissuade the electorate against the Tory / Lib Dem mantra that Labour allowed it all to go
wrong.
January 2010 I started blogging and by the
end of 2012, so we are talking a good couple
of years
of blogging here, I built a speaking platform for myself, I had started podcasting, I was blogging a couple times a week, good community
of people and then
boom, the book offer comes in from a publisher in the U.S. and I didn't go with that initial offer but it made me think very seriously about going back to that goal
of someday writing a book and so I was introduced to a literary agent and I obviously went the traditional publishing route with Virtual Freedom but there's nothing
wrong with the self publishing route at all.