Welcome

Attorney and Novelist

Susan Schaab is an award-winning writer who has practiced technology and intellectual property law for over eight years in New York, Texas and California. In 2012, she earned a Master of Laws degree in New York, summa cum laude, and briefly worked as a prosecutor in the State of New York. 
Her debut thriller novel, Wearing the Spider, won several awards including first place in Genre Fiction from Writer’s Digest. The novel was shortlisted for the 2008 Debut Dagger by the British Crime Writer’s Association, one of only two American novelists included on that year’s shortlist out of hundreds of international entries.
She recently worked as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas, while writing stories by moonlight. Prior to law school, she worked as a software designer, writing software code for a variety of industries.