I like helpful, encouraging people, especially if they're funny.

I have found a blog whose writer is not only very successful and very funny, but very encouraging to other writers. And that sort of generosity of spirit should be applauded. The writer is J.A. Konrath (he writes mysteries, it seems, although I'm not familiar with his work), and the blog is jakonrath.blogspot.com. Here's a sample of the guy's writing:

How do you as an author define success?
Piles of money, so high you can make forts out of them, but you never would because you'd want to sleep in the fort and when you woke up the next morning you'd have a wad of twenties stuck up your unhappy place.

What's the biggest mistake that authors make when it comes to promotion? What's the biggest mistake that you've made when it comes to promotion?
Lots of authors think that once they sell a book, the hard work is over. The fact is, no one cares about you or your book. Sending out a few postcards and doing a signing at the local Barnes & Noble won't make you a best-seller.

The biggest mistake I've made would have to be the Hug a Naked Author Day at the Schaumburg library. But that's only because the cops busted it up.

When he's not joking around, he takes the trouble to give good, no-nonsense advice from the perspective of someone who KNOWS. (And he manages to be funny even when he's not joking, which is really hard to do.)