Colleen Gleason

Colleen Gleason lives near Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband and children. She has a degree in English and an MBA from the University of Michigan. She started writing in primary school and wrote nine complete stories before selling the first book of her The Gardella Vampire Chronicles series to a division of Penguin Books, which published it in January 2007: the series arrives at a conclusion in March 2009. In 2008 she wrote a short story, a prequel to the series, titled In Which a Masquerade Ball Unmasks an Undead, published first in the Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance, then as Victoria Gardella: Vampire Slayer. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in sales and marketing and started her own business in the insurance field.

In 2010, she started the six-novel series The Envy Chronicles, written using the pen name Joss Ware. In 2011, she wrote The Regency Draculia trilogy.

She has also written short stories. In 2010, she collaborated with Mary Balogh, Susan Krinard and Janet Mullany in a paranormal tribute to Jane Austen, writing "Northanger Castle" for the book Bespelling Jane Austen, published on October 1, 2010.

Pseudonyms

Gleason's writing has spanned genres in part due to her use of pen names in her career. Under the pseudonyms "Colleen Cambridge" and "Alex Mandon", she has written amateur sleuth fiction in historical and international storylines. Under the former nom de plume, she has featured iconic female celebrities in fictionalized stories of their lives, including Agatha Christie and Julia Child. She also wrote the Marina Alexander Adventures series as "C.M. Gleason".