Thomas A. Cronin

The Works

A finished manuscript,
a published record,
a next title in development.

→ The lead title→ Selected articles→ Works in progress

Current Work · The Lead Title

Status

Complete Manuscript · Seeking Representation

Genre
Literary Memoir
Length
Complete Manuscript
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Success,
In Spite of Myself.

A memoir told without spin — from a locked front door on Chicago's South Side to horses at the pyramids, from radar stations in Egypt to a compliance firm built and sold.

Adopted, then homeless. A Coast Guard career with postings including Egypt and Saipan. A brief marriage into an Egyptian family. A Distinguished Service Medal at retirement. A hepatitis C diagnosis and a clinical-trial cure. Single fatherhood. A consulting firm built and sold. This is the arc.

Story Beats · No Spoilers

  • Adopted into a family on Chicago's South Side.
  • Homeless at seventeen.
  • Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.
  • United States Coast Guard; postings including Egypt and Saipan.
  • Radar work in Egypt.
  • A brief marriage into an Egyptian family.
  • Distinguished Service Medal at retirement.
  • Founded TrumbullCrow Consulting during the Sarbanes-Oxley era; served Fortune 500 audit committees.
  • Bylined in CIO and BusinessWeek.
  • A hepatitis C diagnosis, a clinical trial, and a cure.
  • Single fatherhood.
  • Sold TrumbullCrow, 2023; returned full-time to the desk.

Selected Bylines · Read On-Site

On the record in CIO and BusinessWeek.

A two-part series on corporate compliance, reproduced in full below.

CIO / BusinessWeek

Byline · Thomas A. Cronin · January 22, 2004

Corporate Compliance: Pulling It All Together (Part 1)

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CIO / BusinessWeek

Byline · Thomas A. Cronin · February 19, 2004

Corporate Compliance: Pulling It All Together (Part 2)

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Works in Progress · Next Up

What's on the desk after the memoir.

A second title in active development, with a defined audience and a published-writer track record behind the pitch.

Second Title · In DevelopmentWorking Title

A practical, wry guide to online dating for baby boomers & beyond.

A nonfiction handbook for one of the largest, most underserved, and most actively-searching audiences online: older adults navigating dating apps built for people half their age. The built-in readership is the pitch — and it comes from an author with existing bylines in CIO and BusinessWeek, i.e. a demonstrated ability to write for print and be published.

Draft outline complete; sample chapters available on request.

  • · Which apps are worth a Tuesday night
  • · The photograph you already have
  • · A profile that sounds like you, not a résumé
  • · Red flags that used to be pink
About Online Dating for Baby Boomers →
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