My babies and I benefited greatly from our nightly bonding sessions and co-sleeping arrangements, and I'm glad I did it for as long as I did.

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.