The announcement every writer loves to make
Little Mister Victory has a publisher!
This coming spring, under its America Through Time imprint, Sutton Books will publish Little Mister Victory, the story of co-author Tina Drzal's decades-long search for the woman who abandoned her father on VJ Day. Using cutting-edge DNA analysis and good-old-fashioned burrowing into newspaper archives, ecclesiastic and government documents, she was found, along with a surprise. Abandoning her newborn baby was not the most shocking act of her life. (This photo, taken on August 15, 1945, shows Boston City Hospital nurse Eileen Resmini holding Tina's dad.)
For more on the book, visit Little Mister Victory's website.
Published and produced work
David's most recent work is a novel based on the audacious 1962 escape by three inmates from Alcatraz. INSEPARABLE tells the story of a thirteen year-old Sausalito boy who discovers two of the escapees near death on a Sausalito beach. The adventure begins when he decides to help them to freedom. Available on Kindle or in paperback here.
David is best-known for his two published books on Scollay Square, Boston's erstwhile entertainment district. He is often called on by media outlets to talk about the era of urban renewal and the loss of old Boston.
The companion Scollay Square website, is chock-filled with photos, movies, music, and other memorabilia.
Written with developer Yanni Tsipis, this book is a vivid document of the history of the road we love to hate. It includes many previously unpublished images from the Massachusetts Highway Department and over two dozen towns and cities through which the highway passes. Visit the Building Route 128 website for content not available before publication - including movies of opening day!
In 2001 the Lyric Stage of Boston presented this musical tribute to Red Sox fans (Book and Lyrics by David, music and lyrics by composer Steven Bergman.) It remains today one of this equity theater's biggest hits. Producers and fans are encouraged to visit the COTB website.
Something of a passion project, this was a book David wrote with his father Louis in 1992. It was inspired by their many trips to historical sites on their native Long Island, a favorite being the Sagamore Hill home of Teddy Roosevelt.
Why would Dorothy Parker say...
This is a much, much younger me pounding away on my mother's (then) high-tech IBM Selectric. Wish I knew what I was writing that day. (Even more, I wish I had learned to touch-type. Still, I've managed a pretty good output two fingers at a time...)
Who even needed a typewriter back then? Long before she gave me access to that modern marvel I was flexing my creative muscles in pencil, as evidenced by the thrilling space adventure my younger self penned (or is that penciled?)
To be able to create entire worlds and people and adventures on a blank piece of paper was... well, I was hooked.
Even while working in broadcasting (first as a radio disc-jockey and then as an engineer at WRKO/WROR-FM in Boston) I was always writing something - articles, columns, and book ideas). Same for my years at a small high-tech startup (as an engineer after I earned my Masters in Engineering) or my time at the Big Dig (as a project spokesperson) and, finally, at a Fortune 500 semiconductor manufacturer (as manager of Direct Marketing)... I was always writing. My reward was the thrill, in 1990, seeing my recently published first book in the window of the Old State House bookstore in Boston.
So why did I mention Dorothy Parker? It's because I have always been puzzled by the statement made by the doyenne of the Algonquin Roundtable that "writers hate writing but love having written." Me? I love it all - even the all-too-regular angst and self-doubt. OF COURSE I love finishing a project. But I'm not kidding when I say if I won the lottery on Tuesday I'd be back at my (perhaps more opulent) desk on Wednesday to begin agonizing all over again.
I am very excited that my next book, a real-life Boston mystery about a baby abandoned in Boston on VJ Day (and the decades-long search by his daughter, co-author Tina Drzal, for the baby's mother) appears to have a publisher! Follow us on Instagram or Facebook for the official announcement.
My wife Mauzy (a former DJ - we met at WROR way back when) retired from radio and now narrates audiobooks. and is working on her own writing. Our daughter, Jennifer, recently (2025) married and works full-time as a Karate instructor (she's a Black Belt... says the proud dad) and owns a video production company specializing in music videos.