Background
Rita Clay Estrada was born on July 31, 1941, in Mount Clemens, Michigan, United States, to Dan Clay and Rita Clay Gallagher, a novelist and lecturer.
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1987
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1991
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1994
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1996
(A Handbook by the Romance Writers of America)
A Handbook by the Romance Writers of America
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1997
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1997
(Being left at the altar for her fiancé's first love was a...)
Being left at the altar for her fiancé's first love was a nightmare that Mary Ellen Gallagher took as a wake-up call. Never again would she let into her life a man who came with baggage! And then Greg Torrance arrived on her doorstep.
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1998
(As a counsellor for pregnant teens, Elizabeth Gallagher w...)
As a counsellor for pregnant teens, Elizabeth Gallagher was forever lecturing about responsibility and safe sex. But when dynamic, darkly handsome Ben Damati came into her life and her bed, she wasn't thinking about her own teachings.
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1999
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1999
(Arriving in Clear Creek, Texas, to tell his twin brother ...)
Arriving in Clear Creek, Texas, to tell his twin brother Anthony that their father is dead, Benjamin Drake, the lowborn son of an English earl, finds his brother attempting to seduce stunning shopkeeper Sarah Hornsby, and Ben soon discovers that Sarah is his soulmate and vows to do anything to win her love.
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2001
Rita Clay Estrada was born on July 31, 1941, in Mount Clemens, Michigan, United States, to Dan Clay and Rita Clay Gallagher, a novelist and lecturer.
Estrada attended college for two years.
Estrada, who in addition to her own name publishes under the pennames Tira Lacy and Rita Clay, is a writer of romances. In the course of four decades, Estrada has written more than forty romance novels. She is a co-founder with her mother, novelist and lecturer Rita Gallagher, of Romance Writers of America, a writers organization that numbers over seven thousand five hundred members. Each year the Romance Writers of America gives out RITA awards, named in Estrada’s honor, to the “best and brightest” writers of romances.
In 1997 the mother-daughter team of Estrada and Gallagher compiled and edited Writing Romances: A Handbook. This collection of twenty-five essays contains practical how-to pieces by such best-selling authors of romances as Janet Dailey, Jennifer Blake, Jude Devereaux, Dianna Gabaldon and Roberta Gellis. Focusing on the craft of researching and writing romances, they treat the different types of romances within the genre, among them contemporary, historical, regency, paranormal, romantic and suspense. Writing Romances also includes pieces about the business aspects of writing by agent Richard Curtis, editor Kate Duffy, and distributor Sandy Jaffe, who discuss agents, the “life of a manuscript”, publicity, and networking.
Estrada is a prolific writer of best-selling romances. Her novels have been translated into 23 languages.
She is a winner of the Waldenbooks Award for Summer Song and the Golden Scroll Award from RomCon (Romance Writers Conference)/Independent Booksellers in 1994. She also received the B. Dalton Booksellers Bookstop Award for the best sales overall in temptation category in 1995. The next award which she won was the 1997 Affaire de Couer Silver Pen Award for The Ivory Key. The Romance Writers of America (RWA) awarded Estrada their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000.
(Arriving in Clear Creek, Texas, to tell his twin brother ...)
2001(Being left at the altar for her fiancé's first love was a...)
1998(As a counsellor for pregnant teens, Elizabeth Gallagher w...)
1999(A Handbook by the Romance Writers of America)
1997Quotations: “Although I love writing, I love being with my family more. They are the most interesting people I know!”
Estrada was a creator and the first president of Romance Writers of America.
Estrada and her husband are divorced. She has four children - Rebecca Holt, Rita Lou Heine, Marissa Allen and Clay Estrada. She has also seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
