Dick Carmel

Dick Carmel's publications include the novel, Though We Have No Merits, published June 2020, an anthology of shorter fiction, Short Stories of Love and Loss, published December 2020, and a family espionage short story, The Child Returned to Her Mother, published March 2021. Before those publications, Carmel's short fiction appeared in Origins Journal, Typehouse Literary Magazine, Akashic Books' Mondays Are Murder, Chicago Literati, Front Porch Review, bird's thumb, and Mash. The Travel Today Magazine and the Law Review at Northwestern University have both published his nonfiction.

Carmel believes writers should write the book they want to read - rather than what might achieve public success, gain critical praise, or please family, friends, and fans. Those results would be welcome, but he believes that writing with those goals would lessen personal fulfillment. Such satisfaction is more likely when authors write for their own enjoyment - catering to their own tastes is more likely to satisfy both reader and writer.

Carmel is a lifelong Chicagoan who attended Northwestern University and what is now the Pritzker School of Law (Northwestern), where he earned BA and JD degrees. That education, followed by clerking at the Illinois Appellate Court and practicing law, have provided a diverse background for his writing.

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