Jack Frost is a character from our new campus novel-- College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair (Rogue Phoenix Press, 2011)

Old Frost picked up his tired acoustic guitar. He brushed a few chords, buzzed a scale or two, and found a Roderick Usher  melody.

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This bit of satiric fun was just published on the Cronk News Website--

Here is the beginning --

Despite heavy criticism from rival Global Corporate Menace Group, the Ruinous Foundation released early results of a five year study today which revealed that emphasis on mission statement rewrites, strate… Read full post »

Our new community college campus novel - College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair  (Rogue Phoenix Press, 2011)--recently received some press on Insidehighered.com

 Below find the first section of that article-- "Community Colleges as Fiction Fodder"

You can read a few thoughts on cowriting our new campus novel--

College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair (Rogue Phoenix Press, 2011)  on the On Getting  Published, Good Books, and Living Goddesses website located at

http://rasanaatreya.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/guest-post-the-phili… Read full post »

My coauthor and I  were recently interviewed by Amy Corwin for her excellent website Fiction Writing and Other Oddities.

I've posted an excerpt below-- you can read the entire interview at...

http://amycorwin.blogspot.com/2012/03/philip-dolly-affair.html

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You might enjoy reading these thoughts about satire, community college culture, and corporate citizenry at this stop on our new campus novel's Virtual Book Tour. The novel is titled College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair.  Read the brief article at

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Community College Spotlight did an outstanding  piece on the our new campus novel-- College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair. (Rogue Phoenix Press, 2011).  The book is available in both ebook and print form.

You can read the entire article at...
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College College Shining Bright—based (very loosely) on William Blake’s "The Tyger")—just for fun, of course….

College College shining bright
On your website late at night
Does your email work at all?
Will the help desk hear my call?

Read the rest , if you like, on  the Cronk… Read full post »

Philip Dolly Affair is a Satisfying Literary Loaf of Laughter!

Product Details

• BN ID: 2940013794337
• Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
• Publication date: 12/27/2011
• Sold by: Barnes & Noble
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 299
• File size: 769 KB
• Items ship to U.S,/
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I try my hand at making a talking avatar movie---  this short video contains a little more critical information about our new campus novel-- College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT-wsJPFUQk

You can find the novel at 

http://shop.roguephoenixpres… Read full post »

Check out the latest review of our new community college "campus novel" -- College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair --

on Barnes & Noble at

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/college-leadership-crisis-jann-m-contento/1108077799 Read full post »

Check out the January 15 2012 review of our community college campus novel

College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair-- by Jann M Contento and Jeffrey Ross--

Romantic poetic socio-political higher education satire at its best, January 15, 2012

College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair (© 2011 Rogue

Phoenix Press)  is an over-the-top, life-in-the-fun-house look at community college daily habits and culture voiced from the perspectives of power-mad administrators seeking bigger salaries; befuddled, frustrated, a… Read full post »

Old Frost knows the end times have come now… 

He sees pretty girls fixated on smart phones… 

He sees children texting and tweeting about nothing, 

He sees the Effeminate men yearning for recipes, potlucks, and techno music—learning the dance moves of Corporate… Read full post »

Check out this fun parody poem based on Theodore Roethke's  "The Waking" located on the Cronk News Website. The Cronk News is a nationally recognized higher education satire publication.

 "The Faking"  can be found at

http://www.cronknews.com/2011/12/09/the-faking/

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Our comic Campus Novel, College Leadership Crisis: The Philip Dolly Affair, will be available in January 2012.  John  Paddison has written an early review--

Well, I only wish the OWS folks would move into the BIG parks and arenas and stadiums and protest the high costs of tickets for NFL, MLB, MLS, and NHL games. (I didn't mention the NBA because I think they are finished! The players get paid too much-- or so I hear).… Read full post »

Check out this fun parody poem based on Emily Dickinson's  "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" located on the Cronk News Website. The Cronk News is a nationally recognized higher education satire publication.

"Because I Could Not Stop For Calc"

 http://www.cronknews.com/2011/10/04/p… Read full post »

Frost watched her drive up,

The old Bronco was bouncing joylessly on the ruts and broken pieces of shale—
Though it was cold outside, she was sleeveless.

Buzz was smoking a Pall Mall and grunting when she swung open the door and stumbled through the skiffs of snow,

Carrying a ball bat and cursing&… Read full post »

You can read the entire article at the link below [on the Cronk News website]. The Cronk is a nationally recognized higher education satire publication-- this appears as a Cronk News Writer's Resource piece...

http://www.cronknews.com/publishing-guidelines/writing-resources-for-aspiring-f… Read full post »

Check out my Wallace Stevens parody-- and commentary on the modern day community college "event" at the Cronk News website--

http://www.cronknews.com/2011/07/11/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-community-colleges-poetry/

The Cronk News is a nationally recognized publication of higher education satires.

Check out the Youtube video made by Dr. John Paddison during one of his recent visits to China-- Military training for Chinese University freshman.

John has put together a photo narrative, "An American Academic in Li Bai's Court: China Photos and Reflections"
which illuminates every day life in Chin… Read full post »

You might enjoy reading this poem published Monday, August 8, on The Cronk News website.

Mimicking the phrasings and meter of Robert Frost’s classic “The Road Not Taken,” this poem gives voice to a student who chose a vocational program of study at her college…. Yo… Read full post »

What agency, what mover, what angel lacquered this landscape?

The world smiles to have you at its center

The Ponies prance and quiver at your presence….

Standing on the playa, I hear the seabirds chatter

Misty, I love you even more.… Read full post »