QueenOfTheRoad's profile

Relationship

Married. Interested in meeting people for networking

Hometown

Great Neck, NY

Places I've been

47 states by bus, one by air (Hawaii). (Although Tim's next dream is to live on a boat. We know nothing about boats.) All over Europe (not by bus).

More about me

My humorous travel memoir, QUEEN OF THE ROAD: The True Tale of 47 States, 22,000 Miles, 200 Shoes, 2 Cats, 1 Poodle, a Husband, and a Bus With a Will of Its Own, was recently published by Broadway Books (Random House) and is already in 6th printing. I've been fortunate to get these wonderful reviews (along with Borders choosing it as a Featured Book Club Pick and Target as a Breakout Book):

"A Charles Kuralt-Albert Brooks-style romp where they meet up with nudists, robbers and more. Required reading." New York Post.

“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." - New York Times bestselling novelist, Jonathan Kellerman.

"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.

"Eat, Pray, Love - without the depression - meets Confessions of a Shopaholic - without the ditz." - Denver 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. This is a fun read that will make just about anyone start itching for a road trip. Grade A." - Rocky Mountain News.

 "I loved this book and I love this author." - Jen Lancaster, bestselling author of Bright Lights, Big Ass, Bitter is the New Black and Such a Pretty Fat.

 

"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. 

 

 

 "Proves with abundant laughs and martini shaker in hadn, that sometimes the best way to enrich home life is to leave the home.... or, better yet, just put it on wheels." - Franz Wisner, New York Times bestselling author, Honeymoon with My Brother. 

 

"Doreen Orion has a fresh, wry voice that's all her own, and she works it like a rodeo rider in her lighthearted and yet tender new memoir, QUEEN OF THE ROAD." - Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times bestselling author, The Deep End of the Ocean. 

 

“Hot Summer Read.” – Chicago Tribune. 

“The ultimate fantasy road trip.” - Quick & Simple Magazine. 

 

My website is www.QueenOfTheRoadTheBook.com. In addition to tons of pictures, martini recipes (I know I have your attention now) commemorating our various disasters on the road (fire, flood, armed robbery and finding ourselves in a nudist RV park, to name a few), video re-ennactments (including of the nudist RV park - don't all crash my website, now) and podcasts, the website is just plain fun - trust me on this.

My book's Amazon page http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Road-States-Poodle-Husband/dp/0767928539/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216995097&sr=8-1 also has some great reviews and quotes.

Activities

Writing Watching movies (I know that's not terribly "active, " but that's me) Photography

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Favorite Music

Motown; Southern Rock; Scissor Sisters; Classical (especially the romantics)

Favorite TV Shows

Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Sex and the City

Favorite Movies

Spanglish; Munich; Star Wars (first 3 only - the rest were a travesty!); Alien and Aliens (ditto on the rest!) Aliens (my all time favorite) Terminator (both) Sleepless in Seattle

Favorite Books

A Walk in the Woods; Map of the World; Eat, Pray, Love; Harry Potters; The Kite Runner; Into the Wild; Me Talk Pretty One Day; Under the Tuscan Sun; A Year in Provence; The Tender Bar; The Sparrow; The Time Traveler's Wife; Water for Elephants; The Golden Compass; The Glass Castle; Honeymoon with My Brother; An Unquiet Mind; Look Me In the Eye; Sex Lives of Cannibals; White Teeth; Running with Scissors; Good Dog. Stay.; Nature Girl; Stiff; Any Place I Hang My Hat; I Like You; The Power of One; The Tortilla Curtain.

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