rss feed reader
My RSS feed saves me hours a day, delivering news to me instead of requiring me to go find it. I am surprised more people don’t use a RSS feed reader. Personally, I use Google Reader but I have tried others as well.
Besides offering my own blogs on an RSS feed (look for the orange chicklet) , I thought I would share some of my favorites feeds.
An amazing up and coming Christian writer, Wendy Paine Miller writes an informative and thoughtful blog. I had the luck of being her next door neighbor for a few years. I expect big things from her very soon.
Agent Kristin Nelson reps one of my favorite authors, Jaime Ford. I have been following her agent blog for several months. I enjoy her musical tastes, her humor and her pertinent advice.
Rachelle Gardner (pictured)
Every aspiring writer should read every one of Rachelle’s blog posts–past, present and future. A wealth of information and practical advice.
I’ve been following Dawn Meehan’s blog since she sold a pack of Pokemon cards on eBay and blew up the internets. She earned a two book contract out of it and writes near daily blog posts about raising six kids as a single mother. Every post is a laugh riot.
This lovely blog offers up all sorts of clever craft and home decor projects. It compiles them from several other crafting blogs, offering a wide variety of topics.
This is my go-to recipe site. They offer some amazing and easy recipes, with drool inducing photos. Check out their archives for a little bit of everything.
All marketing professionals read and revere Seth Godin. His advice is spot on for anyone who sells anything–books, services, a product or even how to brand yourself.
Joshilyn Jackson is one of the first authors I stalked. I have since expanded my reach and I current stalk a handful of favorites. But she still writes one of the best blogs–snarky and poignant, it is nutty with whipped cream on top.
One of my recent stalkees, I have been following Jon Acuff for awhile now. His satire blog on Christians is also snarky and poignant but never mean-spirited. He is also a prolific author and I look forward to assigning more of his writings to my book club.
My critique partner and good friend, Jeanne, writes this laugh out loud funny blog on aging and the strange things that occurs in her life.
One of my new esteemed writers, Jamie is a missionary living in Costa Rica. She claims she is very bad at it but I think she is just being honest. I get excited when her RSS feed is bolded–indicating that she has a new post.
If ever you are feeling downtrodden and like you have too much to bear, I encourage you to go read my friend Chad’s blog in chronological order. He and his wife Sara started the blog when they discovered they were expecting their first child. On February 6, 2011, Sara died in a terrible car accident and baby Miranda followed her momma only a few days later.
Chad is eloquent yet honest in his grief. Do not read his posts without a box of Kleenex nearby.
If you still don’t quite understand how an RSS feed works, I have attached a clever video below.