My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.

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.