Farm Fresh Blog

Blogging Again!

With the release of the latest book, Wet Noses & World Domination, I've come to the realization that I need to start blogging again. Several years ago I fell out of the habit of blogging because most of us were moving to social media. Many of you followed me on my personal facebook page at Sheri Rowe Langford and my author facebook page at Sheridan Rowe Langford. I'm not as good at keeping up with Instagram but my goal is to get better. I gave up on Twitter entirely. Sorry. I need pictures and more words than that. (Y'all know I'm 'wordy.')

Now let's look at the #1 reason for why blogging on the laptop tends to get swept away by social media - the smart phone. This handy device makes it so easy to whip out the camera, take a picture, and post it to facebook with whatever creative juices that would have gone into a blog post. And while it's nice, because it's easy, the reality is that social media platforms do not belong to the writer or to the reader and as I've seen recently, these platforms can get jerked away at any given moment. Many of my readers follow me on social media and we have become dear friends. The posts and images that we put up on social media, the contacts - everything really, does not belong to us, but to that social media platform. If an author wants to maintain independence from the 'borg' than that author must have an independent webpage with a blog that engages readers. (So when I tell someone that it's okay for her to shoot the rattlesnake in her front yard with her kids and dogs, I'm not thrown into facebook jail. Or when I call my cow 'fat.')

So my goal is to get back to blogging on the laptop and then just forward those blog posts to social media. That way the control is back in the hands of the author. And go check out my latest book, Wet Noses & World Domination. The swag items are rolling in now and so soon I will have some giveaways of coffee mugs, book marks, stickers, signed books, etc. for folks who post "shelfie" pictures of themselves, or their dogs (or other critters! For Farm Fresh Forensics people posted pictures of that book with their cows, pigs, geeze, ducks, and horses!)