The Adventures of Andy Greenleaves didn’t begin at a desk.
It didn’t begin with a writing course, a publishing plan, or some grand idea that I was going to become an author.
It began at bedtime.
More specifically, it began on my daughter Lilly’s bed.
When Lilly was little, bedtime stories were one of our rituals. Like many parents, I would lie next to her, trying to get her to settle down, and instead of reading from a book every night, I started making up stories.
The stories became our little...