Doreen Orion
Doreen, an award-wining author and psychiatrist, has appeared in numerous national media (Larry King, GMA, NPR, NYT, People, etc.). QUEEN OF THE ROAD was chosen as a Borders Featured Book Club pick and Target Breakout Book. Still, she considers her greatest accomplishment that her bus was the centerfold for Bus Conversions magazine, thus fulfilling a life-long ambition to be a Miss September.
QUEEN OF THE ROAD reviews:
"Eat, Pray, Love - without the depression." - Denver Magazine.
"A Charles Kuralt-Albert Brooks-style romp where they meet up with nudists, robbers and more. Required Reading." New York Post
"Hot Summer Read." Chicago Tribune
"Beneath its fun and frothy exterior, you'll find in this wild ride across America's highways and byways a lovely portrait of a marriage that treats its ups and downs with humor and grace." - Elle Magazine.
"Orion has every good travel writer's ability to make readers feel they are there, to capture the telling details of places, and to present the account in a witty, accessible way. Reading the book makes you want to hit the road and have some of your own grand adventures. This is a fun read that will make just about anyone start itching for a road trip. Grade A." - Rocky Mountain News.
“Part travel memoir, part diva-on-a-bus-tour comedy.” - 5280 Magzine
“A charming, insightful and – most important – hilarious book that evokes the best of Bill Bryson and David Sedaris, but spotlights the unique voice of a gifted memoirist." -
Jonathan Kellerman, NYT Bestselling novelist
"I loved this book and I love this author." - Jen Lancaster, bestselling author.
"The author’s charm, intelligence and wit make this multi-faceted memoir a must-read. Eat, Pray, Love — without the depression — meets Confessions of a Shopaholic — without the ditz." - Denver Magazine.
"Two psychiatrists driving a motor home around America, and you're still wondering whether to buy this book? Step on the gas and go straight to the register." –Jeff Arch, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
"Doreen Orion has a fresh, wry voice that's all her own and she works it like a rodeo rider in her light-hearted and yet tender new memoir, Queen of the Road." –Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author of THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN
“His dream — he’s always wanted to see America in a converted bus — and her nightmare —she has a bus phobia — and their mid-life crisis on wheels, make for a hilarious reading adventure.”
–Mary-Lou Weisman, author of TRAVELING WHILE MARRIED
"... proves, with abundant laughs... that sometimes the best way to enrich home-life is to leave the home...or, better yet, just put it on wheels."
- Franz Wisner, bestselling author, HONEYMOON WITH MY BROTHER
“The ultimate fantasy road trip.” - Quick & Simple Magazine.
“[A] page-turner travelogue… hilarious.” – American Way Magazine.
Doreen and Tim are married psychiatrists with a twist: they refuse to settle for the mundane, whether at work or in relationships. She’s a self-proclaimed Long Island Princess addicted to shoes, as well as a grouchy couch potato. He's an affable – though driven - outdoorsman. When Tim suggests “chucking it all” to travel cross-country in a converted bus, Doreen asks, “Why can’t you be like a normal husband in a mid-life crisis and have an affair or buy a Corvette?” But she soon shocks them both, agreeing to set forth with their 60 lb. dog, two querulous cats, and no agenda, in a 340-square-foot bus.
Queen of the Road is Doreen’s offbeat and romantic tale about choosing the unconventional road with all the misadventures
“In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.”
“...for most of the ride through British Columbia we were treated to stunning scenery ranging from majestic peaks shrouded in mist to more barren vistas reminiscent of the Old West ... to churning rivers fed by waterfalls twisting down mountains like the woven tassels on the white summer Chanel bag I'd left back home. Do waterfalls ever feel unfashionable after Labor Day”
“...It also taught me that while cruelty can be fun for a few moments, compassion has a much longer shelf life.”
“As Tim followed me up the narrow stairwell, he playfully pinched my butt with every step, a pleasant (and painful--in a black-and-blue sort of way) reminder that all I had yearned for as a student twenty-five years before had come true, even if I hadn't taken the time to notice it until now: I was happy. At twenty years old, had I articulated what I thought I needed in life, I would have probably said a big house, a successful husband, and a great career. Yet all I really needed for true happiness was the homeless, unemployed bus driver right behind me, pinching my butt every step of the way.”