Rita Delude has a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing. Although this is her first foray into novella-length published fiction, she has published the short story "Bully" through Feather Dreams Press in their Through Their Eyes Anthology, "Aftershock" through Bella Tulip Publishing in their War Cry Anthology, "Plum Secrets" in Madame Scarlet's Carnival by Zombie Cupcake Press, "Vive la Resistance" in A Deadly World: Vampires in Paris by Enchanted Anthologies, and "Space Tails" in Off Course by Zombie Cupcake Press. She has also published numerous non-fiction magazine articles for education magazines. For two decades, she worked as a journalist and published feature stories and a twice-weekly newspaper column. Her novella Baby Blues will be released on August 15, 2018, featuring some of the same characters as in Kaleidoscope. She spent seventeen years teaching writing at Nashua Community College and retired as a full professor in 2014.