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About Me

My book Queen of the Oddballs is not only about living life Unaccording to Plan, but also a memoir about growing up on the fringes of Hollywood, and my adventures with many clebs, from the A-List to the D-List.
In my new book, À la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers , I get to know "nobodys" -- strangers -- so intimately, that I become them.
Why not watch this clip to see what it's all about?! (and see what Amy Sedaris has to say about it!)

To see and read and watch and do so many fun thangs, go to the website for À la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers !

And you can still get Queen of the Oddballs , too! See why Borders selected it as one of the "Best Literary Memoirs of 2006," why Publisher's Weekly said, "Carlip's fresh, funny memoir of growing up at celebrity's edge in Hollywood is at once hilarious and heartbreaking," and Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman!) said: "Hillary Carlip's life will floor you. Colorful? She was a kid Auntie Mame! Her book should be mandatory reading for anybody contemplating fabulousness."

My Interests

DO YOU (HEART) QUEEN OF THE ODDBALLS? Then help spread the word!

Just put a Queen of the Oddballs widget on your MySpace page or website! It lets you not only browse through Queen of the Oddballs , but you can also let everyone know you're proud to be an oddball!

Just click on where it says "Get this for your site." It'll take you to a page where you can get the code to paste in your page. WHO ROCKS? YOU DO!

Browse Inside this book Get this for your site

I'd like to meet:

You, and you. And you and you and you.

Music:

ANGEL AND THE RERUNS, my "all-girl, all ex-con" band from the '80s now presents JUST RELEASED -- our CD of 11 songs! And you can listen and buy tracks right here, right now!

My Blog

WHAT CELEBS GONNA DIE???

OK... Remember in Queen of the Oddballs the chapter about how we take my mom to hell -- I mean Las Vegas -- every year and someone famous always dies when we're there?? Well, we're going TOMORROW!...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Wed, 14 May 2008 07:15:00 PST

COME SHOPPING WITH ME and the Wall Street Journal!?!

Hey pals!SO MANY EXCITING THINGS ARE HAPPENING!! I’m getting such an amazing response to my new book A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocery Shoppers! There’s a KICK-ASS feature story in ...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 03:40:00 PST

IM GIVING AWAY $50 bucks! (OH, and my new book is O.U.T.!)

That’s right, you heard me! If you go and get my book, which comes out TODAY (and is on sale at Amazon for a mere $12.21!) and you somehow let me know you’ve gotten it, I’ll en...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:02:00 PST

IM BACK, AND ODDER THAN EVER!!

YO, pals!I know, it's been a looooong time since I've given shout-out. It's not that I don't love you and miss you, it's just that I've been busy making a lil' something something just for you.....
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:36:00 PST

LAMMIES AND WIDGETS!!

Well, I have AWESOME news! Queen of the Oddballs is a LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST in TWO, not one but, TWO categories!! The LAMBDA awards, or "LAMMIES," are the literary awards honori...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:17:00 PST

MY DINNER WITH PHYLLIS DILLER!!

That's right, you heard me. Saturday night, I had dinner with the ORIGINAL Queen of the Oddballs, Phyllis Diller!! AT HER HOUSE! OK, this may get a bit long and windbag...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:22:00 PST

Celebs I have known AND YOU!!

As many of you know, Queen of the Oddballs is chock full o' my encounters with celebrities. Entertainment Weekly said: But to me, the people I love meeting and connecting ...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:56:00 PST

MY SECOND APPEARANCE ON THE ELLEN SHOW!!!

ALMOST& So here's how it went down. The other day I was doing my thang when I get a call at about noon. "Hillary?" It's an unfamiliar voice on the other end of the phone. "Ye...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:40:00 PST

TRANNY TRUCKERS & BOZO THE CLOWN

As my book tour for my memoir, Queen of the Oddballs, is winding down, I'm sOOooOO looking forward to having more time to keep my blog updated, as well as respond to all the spectacular shout-outs, em...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:54:00 PST

WHAT IS AN ODDBALL??

A lot of people keep asking. To me an oddball is someone who's on the sunny side of weird. Its someone who's an eccentric, a trailblazer, somewhat mistrustful of the tasteful and the restrained...
Posted by Queen of the Oddballs on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:38:00 PST