Today's KDP Select exclusive-or-else slushpile trawl yields some nice backlist sf/fantasy from Norman Spinrad and a few short stories from others. Also some romance repubs for the non-sf/fantasy readers.
Two of multiple-award nominated heptagenarian Norman Spinrad's badly formatted but bravely uploaded titles have been made free for a limited time under the 5-days-out-of-90 thing. Only one of them seems to be available worldwide and the other, more interesting one, seems geo-restricted despite the KDP thing. Perhaps non-US persons outside Canada will still be able to get it.
Vampire Junkies just what it says in the title @ Amazon
main UK DE ES FR IT.
Count Dracula escapes by the skin of his teeth from Romania, ends up in the Chelsea Hotel in New York, where the first drink of blood he finds is a junkie hooker. It's love at first bite, at least for Drac, Little Mary Sunshine has somewhat different ideas.
Humor in a jugular vein.
A down and dirty low budget movie adaptation is in the works.
The Mind Game I Can't Believe It's Not Scientology!™ published by Bantam circa 1985 @ Amazon
main (probably geo-restricted to US only).
Down on his luck Hollywood director's down on her luck actress wife gets taken over by a mind game cult like Est or Scientology called Transformationalism.
She disappears into the bowels of Transformationalism, he's determined to "rescue" her to the point where pretends to be taken over too. Is he or isn't he? As he delves deeper and deeper (or higher and higher depending on what who believes), he's no longer sure either.
A novel about the power of cults, show biz and cults, and just maybe the nature of "reality" assuming there is one.
One of the real such cult took a certain offense with the author, there was a mysterious burglary with nothing of value taken, a few other such mind games. Long out of print in English though still around in a few other languages.
Also in the KDP select slushpile:
Nebula Award winner Eric James Stone's short story:
P.R. Problems.
Iain Rowan's Black Gate magazine-published short story:
Looking for Goats, Finding Monkeys.
Jim Baen's Universe-published newbie author Amber D. Sistla's 2 short story collections:
Open the Door &
Going Somewhere and Other Stories.
Judith Arnold's Harlequin-published romance:
Aztec Sun.
Bell Bridge Books-published Alicia Rasley's backlist Regency romance:
Poetic Justice.
Formerly Dorchester-published comedic chick-lit mystery writer Gemma Halliday's "Viva Las Vegas" in 2-book
Sin City omnibus by her and J.R. Rain.
ETA: Baen author Sarah A. Hoyt writing under her historical mystery pen name Sarah d'Almeida's short story:
Juggler. Her regular sf story which ties into her award-nominated novel Darkship Thieves is still free, by the way:
Neptune's Orphans.