About Susan

Susan Ashbaine is a Generation X Information Technology professional who grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. From an early age, she gravitated toward expressing her point of view through writing, and throughout her life she has been known for her natural verbosity. Those who know her best will tell you she has never been one to settle for a sentence when a paragraph would do. Though she has never considered herself a bookworm, writing in some form has always been part of her identity.

Rather than labeling herself an author, Susan describes herself as an eight-to-five working stiff, counting the days until she can finally escape the rat race. When Leo Logged On was written in the fleeting peace of evening hours between the turbulent days of a workplace in crisis. For Susan, writing became both a refuge and a way to capture her story before that chapter of her life came to a close.

As her debut work, When Leo Logged On was not the memoir she originally set out to write. Like many first-time authors, she discovered that the story she wanted to tell and the story she could tell were not the same. Circumstances and timing shaped the project, and ultimately it became the book that insisted on being written in its present form. During the editing process, many beloved memories and vignettes were left on the cutting room floor, and she has already begun to explore ideas for a second book that will most likely also find its place in the memoir space in order to share those stories one day, too.

Until then, she invites you to step into her world through When Leo Logged On. Read it, reflect on it, and decide for yourself: was it him, or wasn't it?