Joal Ryan

Do people really wait on line for hours (and hours) to meet the princesses from "Frozen" at Disneyland? Oh, yes, they do.

Fifty-plus poems about growing up and growing older, looking back and looking ahead-and doing it all while the TV plays in the background. As excerpted in Shelf Unbound (March 2014). Ryan is chief content officer of Inverted Pyramid Media.

At the end of the millennium, a generation of plain-old Scotts, Kens and Jennifers was faced with the task of finding just the right name for its whiz-bang, 21st-century offspring. The well-honed trend radar of Puffy, Xena, Quentin, Uma helped get the job done.

10-part series covering the Twilight phenomenon, from book to screen. Excerpted from planned, 20,000-word ebook.

Cowriter of documentary film (now in post-production) on Manhattan Plaza, the artist-populated, affordable-housing apartment complex in New York City's Hell's Kitchen.

A biographical portrait of the screen great, featuring dozens and dozens of black-and-white images. Praised People: "Ryan makes a convincing case that Hepburn will continue to serve as an icon and inspiration for future generations."