Colleen Gleason is an American writer.

Biography

Colleen Gleason lives near

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with her husband and children. She has a degree in English and an

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from the

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. 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

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, 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

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, Susan Krinard and Janet Mullany in a paranormal tribute to

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, writing "Northanger Castle" for the book ''Bespelling Jane Austen'', published on October 1, 2010.

Bibliography

Series

'' The Gardella Vampire Chronicles''

# ''The Rest Falls Away'' (January 2, 2007) # ''Rises the Night'' (June 2, 2007) # ''The Bleeding Dusk'' (February 5, 2008) # ''When Twilight Burns'' (August 5, 2008) # ''As Shadows Fade'' (March 3, 2009) # ''Roaring Midnight'' (June 18, 2013) # ''Roaring Shadows'' (August 2015) # ''Roaring Dawn'' (July 2016)

''Envy Chronicles''

# ''Beyond the Night'' (2010) # ''Embrace the Night Eternal'' (2010) # ''Abandon the Night'' (March 2010) # ''Night Betrayed'' (January 2011) # ''Night Forbidden'' (August 2012) # ''Night Resurrected'' (May 2016)

''The Regency Draculia Series''

# ''The Vampire Voss'' (March 22, 2011) # ''The Vampire Dimitri'' (April 19, 2011) # ''The Vampire Narcise'' (May 24, 2011)

''Medieval Herb Garden''

# ''Lavender Vows'' (2011) # ''Sanctuary of Roses'' (March 15, 2011) # ''A Whisper Of Rosemary'' (April 1, 2011)

'' Stoker & Holmes''

# ''The Clockwork Scarab'' (September 17, 2013) # ''The Spiritglass Charade'' (October 4, 2014) # ''The Chess Queen Enigma'' (October 6, 2015) # ''The Carnelian Crow'' (July 1, 2017) #The Zeppelin Deception (2019)

Novels

* ''Siberian Treasure'' (February 4, 2011) * ''The Cards of Life and Death'' (March 4, 2011) * ''The Shop of Shades and Secrets'' (May 3, 2011)

Short stories

*"In Which a Masquerade Ball Unmasks an Undead" in ''The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance'' (2008) *"Northanger Castle" in ''Bespelling Jane Austen'' (2010)

References

External links

*
Official website (as Joss Ware)
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gleason, Colleen Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American novelists American science fiction writers American women novelists Living people Writers from Detroit Ross School of Business alumni American women science fiction and fantasy writers 21st-century American women writers University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni Novelists from Michigan