Irving Mansfield Mansfield gave up his career to help his wife promote her book, "Valley of the Dolls", which was published in 1966 and became the best-selling novel of the year. Mansfield continued to work with his wife in promoting her subsequent novels, "The Love Machine" (1969) and "Once Is Not Enough" (1973), both among the top three sellers of their respective years. Mansfield also executive-produced movie versions of his wife's novels "The Love Machine" (1971) and "Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough" (1975), as well as a 1981 television mini-series version of "Valley". Mansfield met Jacqueline Susann, then an aspiring stage
Yargo (novel) had enjoyed a huge success five years earlier when it published Susann's original novella, "Dolores". "Yargo" was published on February 28, 1979. Critical notices were negative: one critic wrote, "It's awful, as usual, and it will sell, as usual." "The Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review" stated that "Yargo" is "mildly entertaining," but "has no lasting value... except perhaps as a curiosity." "Yargo" was, nonetheless, a best seller, spending several weeks on the "New York Times" Mass Market Paperback list. Yargo (novel) Yargo is a romantic science fiction novel by Jacqueline Susann. It was written during the 1950s, but not