It just didn't feel right to let my child scream and holler and thrash by her little self in the dark in her crib when I knew full well that a little rocking in her glider, maybe a song and a sweet nuzzle of her cheek would send her off to dreamland.

Denene Millner is an American author and journalist. Millner's other books include the young adult novel Miss You Mina written for Scholastic; the novel The Vow written with Angela Burt-Murray and Mitzi Miller; and the three-book teen series Hotlanta written with Mitzi Miller. Millner was a reporter for the Associated Press and a political and entertainment reporter for the New York Daily News.

Millner was a reporter for the Associated Press and a political and entertainment reporter for the New York Daily News. Act Like a Lady was in the top ten on the New York Times hardcover advice list for 43 weeks in 2009; Straight Talk was in the top ten for more than 12 weeks in 2011. In 2007 Millner wrote the novelization of the screenplay for Dreamgirls.