Inside One Author's Heart

Last spring, when ``Eugenia Price Day'' drew crowds to St. Simons Island, Ga., to honor the bestselling author in her 75th year, Price was prompted to write this response to questions about her life and career. Here she describes how she and her longtime companion, Joyce Blackburne, left Chicago in 1960 and settled on St. Simons, where Price wrote the novels that followed her inspirational nonfiction ( What is God Like? ). A devout Christian, she believes Providence led her to the source of her popular trilogies--St. Simons Trilogy, Georgia Trilogy--based on historical figures. Much of this journal, however, deals with such minutae as meeting deadlines, traveling to book-signings and averting crises when trusted editors are replaced and venerable publishing houses are taken over by conglomerates. Price delivers interesting generalities,but not the personal confidences the title promises. Apparently these are still inside the author's heart. Photos not seen by PW. (May)