Tom Milani has published short fiction in Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties, Illicit Motions, Janie’s Got a Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Aerosmith, Sleuths Just Wanna Have Fun: Private Eyes in the Materialistic Eighties, and In Too Deep: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Genesis, among other places. “Barracuda Backfire” was published in 2024 as Book 4 of Michael Bracken’s Chop Shop series of novellas and shortlisted for a Derringer. Places That Are Gone, released in May 2025, is his first novel.