Rob LeBlanc is a Canadian author, musician, visual storyteller, and the founder of Gravel Road Books—an independent creative home built for stories, music, artwork, videos, and ideas that refuse to stay inside one category.
Based in London, Ontario, Rob writes from lived experience. Years spent working in professional security sharpened his understanding of people, pressure, danger, loyalty, and the quiet decisions that can change a life. That grounded perspective runs through everything he creates, whether he is writing supernatural horror, emotional drama, spiritual fiction, military stories, memoir, or honest books drawn directly from the real world.
His fictional worlds include the dark mythology of Soul Takers, the psychological terror of The Nothing, the emotional history of Our Life, and an expanding collection of stories built around survival, sacrifice, faith, fear, family, and the consequences of human choice. His work can be brutal, heartfelt, unsettling, hopeful, and deeply personal—sometimes all within the same story.
Long before the books, there was music. Rob has spent years around bands, live shows, guitars, drums, recording equipment, and the controlled chaos of creating something from nothing. His sound carries the weight of dark country, Southern rock, heavy music, and hard-lived storytelling. Through original songs, Reaper Radio, video production, and visual experimentation, he continues to build experiences that connect music and imagery with the worlds found in his books.
Rob’s tattoos are more than decoration. They represent identity, memory, survival, and the belief that a person can walk through hell and still come out the other side carrying enough fire to light the road ahead. That same spirit lives inside Gravel Road Books.
Behind the work is a man who values family, loyalty, perseverance, and the people who continue walking beside him. Gravel Road Books is a family-built vision, with his brother Ron helping transform the idea into a permanent online home. And somewhere near the studio, his cat Oreo remains a trusted companion, occasional distraction, and unofficial supervisor of the entire operation.
Rob LeBlanc does not create from a distance. He puts pieces of his life into the work—the music, the scars, the humour, the darkness, the mistakes, the rebuilding, and the road still ahead.
Gravel Road Books is where those pieces become worlds.
Stories worth taking the long way home.
Gravel Road Books 