When Brandon Mull was roughly 10 years old, he snuck into his grandma’s closet. Inspired by C.S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,” he hoped to find a portal to Narnia in her home because, as he said, she “was old and she had a big closet.”

Mull pushed through his grandma’s coats and found a set of small doors. But instead of finding Narnia and Aslan the lion behind them, he found a room filled with canned peaches.

He was disappointed.

“I wanted to go to another world. I wanted to fight some monsters, probably become their king, and instead, I was lord of the canned peaches. It was my sad little domain,” Mull said during his spotlight panel at FanX in Salt Lake City on Friday.

But he didn’t let his disappointment hinder his imagination.

“Because I could not go into another

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