Five Times Lucky
2020 Finalist Foreword INDIE Awards for General Fiction: June 2021
2021 Silver Medal in the Readers' Favorite Book Award for Fiction Humor/Comedy: August 2021
2021 Winner, American Fiction Awards for Humor/Comedy/Satire and 2021 Finalist, American Fiction Awards for General Fiction: September, 2021
[Five Times Lucky] offers a fresh and extremely entertaining take on celebrity culture and Hollywood. This book is exemplary in its voice and writing style. — Writers Digest
An engaging tale about celebrity, love, and the search for one's place in the world. Temple's prose is exact and full of color, capable of both madcap humor and wistful lyricism. — Kirkus Review
Clever, surprising, funny... A thoroughly fun romp. Temple takes readers on a rip-roaring thrill ride in this spectacular romantic comedy. —The Prairies Book Review
If you’re looking for a fun/crazy read, with a bizarre catalogue of characters, are prepared to put your faith in the author and his criteria, are happy to follow him down some unusual and unexpected paths, and are looking for a break from the grey and dreary reality, this is your antidote. I hope this turns into a TV series or a movie, because it will be a hoot. — Olga Milet, Rosie's Book Review Team
Watch P. David Temple reading from his novel Five Times Lucky: Here
Plays
Nobody Knows
A one-act play by P. David Temple
“As the pandemic hits Mexico, the expat community wrestles with the question of whether it is safer to stay in San Miguel or run for the border." Starring Mick Diener, Gene Harvey and Lauren Osornio. Directed by Ted Englander and Lauren Osornio. Performed at the San Miguel Playwrights Showcase 2023, February, 2023.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/ldISAjtM-lU
Boca Grande
When Neptune, the Sovereign of the Seven Seas, suspects that another god is subverting his authority, he summons his niece, Diana, Goddess of the Hunt, to help ferret out his adversary, but discovers too late who the culprit is.
Here is the production video production of Boca Grande, performed at the San Miguel Playhouse in January and February 2020: YouTube
Photo by P David Temple, all rights reserved.
Trade Secrets
Photo by P David Temple, all rights reserved.
REVIEWS
As close to perfect a ten-minute play as I have ever read.
Mark Saunders, Founding Director of the San Miguel Diez Minutos Festival
PUBLISHING
Trade Secrets is a ten-minute play with two characters, one man and one woman, both “of a certain age.” No set required. Trade Secrets on YouTube.
Trade Secrets (©2019) is published by Smith and Kraus, New York in The Best Ten Minute Plays of 2019 and is available through the True Acting Institute at trueactinginstitute.com/books or email pdavidtemple@gmail.com for production rights.
EVENTS
SAN MIGUEL LITERARY SALA LIVE
Watch P. David Temple reading from his novel Five Times Lucky: Here
Prose Café / Fiction Extravaganza
A live video event: December 2, 2021
A live event at Café Murmullo March 9th, 2023, David performing Remembering Stan, a monologue about a man showing up for the memorial service of a past employer, at the Poetry and Prose Café:
