A finished manuscript,
a published record,
a next title in development.
THE WORKS
Current Work · The Lead Title
Complete Manuscript · Seeking Representation
Status
Literary Memoir
Genre
Length
Complete Manuscript
Success,
In Spite of Myself.
A memoir told without spin — from a locked front door on Chicago's South Side to riding horses around the pyramids, from radar sites in Egypt to a compliance firm built and sold. This is truly a book about a self-made kid from Chicago who reached great Success, in spite of himself.
Adopted, then homeless. Escape two police stations in one night, A Coast Guard career with postings on Saipan MI. and Sitka AK., A Distinguished Service Medal for saving two Japanese newlyweds. General Electric long-term assignments in Egypt and Turkey working on air defense radars, A brief marriage into a powerful Egyptian family, grew 30 pounds of pot, hepatitis C diagnosis and a clinical-trial cure. Single fatherhood. A consulting firm built and sold. This is the arc.
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Story Beats · No Spoilers
Adopted into a family on Chicago's South Side.
A brief marriage into an Egyptian family.
Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa.
Single fatherhood.
Homeless at eightteen
United States Coast Guard; postings Saipan.
A hepatitis C diagnosis, a clinical trial, and a cure.
Founded TrumbullCrow Consulting during the Sarbanes-Oxley era; served Fortune 500 audit committees.
Distinguished Service Medal .
General Electric Radar work in Egypt and Turkey
Sold TrumbullCrow, 2023; returned full-time to the desk.
Bylined in CIO and BusinessWeek.
Selected Bylines · Read On-Site
On the record in CIO and
BusinessWeek.
​A two-part series on corporate compliance, reproduced in full below.
Byline · Thomas A. Cronin · January 22, 2004
Byline · Thomas A. Cronin · FEBRuary 19, 2004
What's on the desk after the memoir.
Works in Progress · Next Up
A second title in active development, with a defined audience and a published-writer track record behind the pitch.
Second Title · In Development
Working 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
Also On The Desk​
Essay collection · untitled
Short-form pieces on service, second acts, and what memoir owes to the people in it.
Long-form journalism · in outline
On the aftermath of the Sarbanes-Oxley era, told through five people who lived it.