Rita, her mother, and 35 other authors, decided that an association was needed to defend their published members. In 1985 she resigned from Harlequin and asked to use her fullname, Rita Clay Estrada, on all future books. In 1982, she moved to Dell to write for their Candlelight Ecstasy line and she wrote as Tira Lacy, an anagram of Rita Clay, because Harlequin owned her pen name. She used her maiden name, Rita Clay for her titles for Silhouette. But her third manuscript, Wanderer's Dream, was sold to Silhouette Books. Her next manuscript, a contemporary romance, was like wise rejected. Rita's first attempt of publication was a long historical romance which was promptly rejected. While beginning to write, they learned how to publish books and made great friendships with other writers. Now write." She and her mother, Rita Gallagher, accepted the challenge. In 1977, when she had been married about 20 years, her husband brought her a typewriter and said, "'You said you always wanted to write. Rita married very young with her high school sweetheart, James Estrada, and she stayed at home to raise their four children. She spent much of her early years living in Europe. Her mother was a former Miss Michigan, while her father was a U.S. Rita Clay was born on 31 July 1941 in Michigan, U.S.A.
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