Mike's love affair with travelling began when he and a friend breathed new life into an old Honda Prelude and clocked up 10,000km in the Australian outback. It was their ticket to personal freedom as they delved deep into a life of unplanned, unfiltered and socially-engaging experiences.

Their desire to disregard the rule book led them to rural parts of Australia, Asia, Europe and Africa, as they embraced a hand-to-mouth existence through unconventional work and real relationships with their global neighbours.

Mike's obsession with writing and all things literary soon took on a new shape, as he began writing short stories about his experiences and sharing them with the wider community.

You could say these are the roots of Sun Rider Press.

The origins of Luke's obsession with art and travel can be traced back his birth on a sailing boat in the Virgin Islands. As a child, growing up in New Zealand, he and his brother spent countless hours absorbed in comics, video games and literature.

Luke took the blind plunge to Bristol, UK, when he was only 19. He met Mike not long after, in the basement of an old printing factory-turned-hostel. It was there that they began working together, sharing their artistic styles and channeling the attitudes of many of their idols - Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, Hunter S. Thompson, Bukowski, Krumm, among others. Their bromance quickly formed.

But Luke's never one to stay idle. He's done tattoo and cheffing apprenticeships, penned ink down the road from the Colosseum and is currently working at a chef in Dubai, where he resides with his Mexican partner.

He also illustrates our books and covers and we love him dearly.