Colleen Gleason lives near Ann Arbor, Michigan[1] with her husband and children.
[1] She started writing in primary school and wrote nine complete stories before selling the first book of her The Gardella Vampire Chronicles[3] series to a division of Penguin Books, which published it in January 2007:[3] the series arrives at a conclusion in March 2009.
Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in sales and marketing and started her own business[3] in the insurance field.
[4] In 2010, she started the six-novel series The Envy Chronicles, written using the pen name Joss Ware.
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.