Searching for Reckless
by Jess Michaels

Last week, my erotic romance SOMETHING RECKLESS hit stores everywhere. Lots of times people ask me which character I'm most like. It's a hard question to answer, but I guess there is a lot of me in RECKLESS' heroine Penelope Norman.

See, Penelope is a bit of a scaredy cat. She's locked herself away, a little afraid of trying new things. A little afraid of being...well...Reckless.

Her hero, Jeremy Vaughn, is so the opposite. All he is is reckless. He does what he pleases, when he pleases, consequences never come much into play. Obviously there are disadvantages to both sides of the coin.

In my real life, I am rarely reckless. I think I should do lots of things, but in the end I am a “good girl", doing what I think I should. So I might think, “Hey, I should go to China.” But if I was left to my own devices, I probably never would actually book the trip. I'd talk myself out of the expense and the long flight and the language barrier and a thousand other reasons not to take that risk.

Luckily, the man I married has a lot of Jeremy in him. Although he's not completely reckless like the character, he's much more likely to follow through. For example, when I said, “Hey, maybe we should go to China”...he booked the trip.

And that's how I ended up flying halfway across the world. You know what? Reckless is fun! If there wasn't a little reckless in my life, I never would have seen this:
The Wild Goose Pagota in Xi'an, China

Me at the Terra-Cotta Warriors Site.

My husband and Me at The Great Wall.

Yes, there's definitely something to be said for a reckless and a not-reckless person getting together. I'm off now. My reckless husband is taking me to Ft. Lauderdale, FL for the weekend. He booked the trip on Tuesday.

Do you know anyone fabulously reckless? Are you a spur of the person or not? Where do you look for something reckless in your life?