Imagine one of these images is the cover of a book that doesn’t exist yet.

Which one would make you stop, pick up the book, and want to know more?

I’m always fascinated by the way a single image can start a story. A strange creature standing in a modern city. A dragon hidden deep in a forest. An isolated cabin beneath snowy mountains. A lighthouse at the edge of the sea. An island that may be hiding something. An old wagon wheel with a history no one remembers.

Or maybe the animal photographs suggest an entirely different kind of story.

So today, you get to help create the book.

Pick an image and tell me:

• Which picture would you choose?
• What kind of story would it be: fantasy, mystery, science fiction, adventure, thriller, romance, or something else?
• Who would the main character be?
• And if you really want to have fun with it, what would you call the book?

There are no wrong answers. The same photograph might make one person imagine a fantasy adventure and another imagine a murder mystery.

Who knows? One of your ideas might even start something.

If one of these pictures were sitting on a bookstore shelf, which book would you