Maple Leaf Publishing
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Maple Leaf Publishing Overview
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Maple Leaf Publishing has 3.3 star rating based on 11 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly neutral.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Communications, Helpful.
Cons: False promises, False advertisement, Not real book publicist.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Maple Leaf Publishing is a great self publishing to work with.", "Do not believe Maple Leaf's promises.", "FELLOW AUTHORS: BE CAUTIOUS making business deals over the phone. I have lost thousands of dollars in USA & Canada!", "Will work very hard for you", "you better do your books with them".
The aggregated data is based on reviews and questionnaires provided by PissedConsumer.com users.
Maple Leaf Publishing has 3.3 star rating based on 11 customer reviews. Consumers are mostly neutral.
- Rating Distribution
Pros: Communications, Helpful.
Cons: False promises, False advertisement, Not real book publicist.Recent recommendations regarding this business are as follows: "Maple Leaf Publishing is a great self publishing to work with.", "Do not believe Maple Leaf's promises.", "FELLOW AUTHORS: BE CAUTIOUS making business deals over the phone. I have lost thousands of dollars in USA & Canada!", "Will work very hard for you", "you better do your books with them".
Review authors value the most Diversity of Products or Services and Website. The price level of this organization is medium according to consumer reviews.
Top Maple Leaf Publishing Reviews
"Satisfied"
I have worked with them for these months to assist me with social media. They managed to satisfy me with their service and gain sales for my book. Maple Leaf...
"Did not deliver on important promise."
Spent $800 to have my book represented at the Saratoga New York Book Fair. Was promised promotional materials that I could edit. Despite requests, they never...
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Satisfied
User's recommendation: Maple Leaf Publishing is a great self publishing to work with.
Edmonton, Alberta
Did not deliver on important promise.
Spent $800 to have my book represented at the Saratoga New York Book Fair.
Was promised promotional materials that I could edit. Despite requests, they never showed me the promotional materials including a brochure. Worse, instead of admitting that those materials were not created, they created them after the show was over and after I complained.
- Maple leaf solicited me with false promises
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: Do not believe Maple Leaf's promises.
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Highland, California
Maple Leaf Publishing Inc. management Team, & CEO: NO response to emailed inquiries. Refusing to refund for paid unfulfilled services
Book Exhibition Program: Paid for 2019 Book exhibition in USD currency as mutually agreed upon with publicist.
Upon completion of three series installment payments, I found out that Ingram Spark may have time constraints in printing book copies of "STOP THE PAIN, God's Answer to my Unanswered Prayers" for 2019. This was confirmed by several representatives of Ingram Spark.
I was then still in the process of establishing my account with Ingram Spark. I presented this predicament, but the publicist assured me that my payment will be saved until I notify them of my book copy availability.
Complaint: Maple Leaf Publishing Inc. failure to adhere to above suspended 2019 Book Exhibition participation. Instead, a new publicist emerged in place of the original publicist.
Claimed my book and its journal version got exhibited in 2019 as scheduled without any significant proof. Later, it was revealed this was a false report!
I requested the CEO to hold off my book exhibition until COVID-19 gets medically under control due to possible low event attendance.
Request for refund ignored! Company's reason of not refunding: Book Exhibition organizer paid.-----> I was never consulted; nor got involved in this plan. I would never approve this kind of strategy due to previously mentioned unexpected events.
Second Major issue:The same publicist presented a supposed medical-oriented promotion program with Canada healthcare organizations, etc.
Somehow, I embraced her proposal confidently after identifying herself as a registered nurse. From my perspective, the content of this book could easily tie-in to the current global COVID 19 healthcare issues thus helping healthcare providers especially nurses, patients & their loved ones. I then paid for this program. Only to find out from the company's CEO later that such marketing/promotion program never existed!
Nevertheless, the CEO promised to establish one with her former nursing colleagues. Since then there was no productive follow up. After further complaining, a portion of my payment got refunded, but retained a big amount for administrative fees. I assertively argued, "Why would an author be charged for advertisement presentations?
For almost a year now, Maple Leaf Publishing management team and CEO have totally ignored my email messages.
There is a big problem of reconnecting to the company, too! Telephone messages are all left unanswered. Sometimes, if I got lucky to get a person picking up the phone, I would get a "busy signal" as soon as I start talking. I am becoming skeptical that I am being blocked from further communication.
Do you think such business practice/authors treatment is worth reporting to a Licensing Agency in Alberta? Your advice is greatly appreciated...
- Not willing to give refund for cancelled book fair
- False promises
- False advertisement
Preferred solution: Full refund
User's recommendation: FELLOW AUTHORS: BE CAUTIOUS making business deals over the phone. I have lost thousands of dollars in USA & Canada!
Dear Carmelita We did refund your money Feb 17 2021 we are very sorry you did not get your full satisfaction we did try to accommodate you best we could. Your other projects were completed on time and on budget. Thank you
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Set the record straight
Preferred solution: No Solution
User's recommendation: Will work very hard for you
Hi! How sure are you of what you wrote regarding individual author's experience with Maple Leaf Publishing Inc.
In Alberta, Canada? If you're one of the representatives of this company, I challenge you to contact me at melykinjo@***.com Thank you very much!
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- Helpful
- Communications
Preferred solution: None
Thank you for doing your best. Love who she communicates with me. It really dpeends on who your publicist is
Milpitas, California
RIP Off
User's recommendation: RIP off
We never have been or have sold any events at the Vancouver book festivals. So it would seem as though you might have us confused with some other company.
I am sorry that this happened to you. Maple Leaf Publishing
Happy
- Communications
Preferred solution: none
Lapu-Lapu City, Central Visayas
A great experience helped me a lot
User's recommendation: you better do your books with them
Publication
- Helpful
Preferred solution: None
I was told I couldn't get a $1142. refund for a cancelled Toronto fair.k fair because of a contract clause. I want my lawyer to review the contract.
II invested $1140. in a Toronto book fair that was cancelled.
The salesman said I couldn't get a refund due to something in the paperwork. I need the paperwork from them and perhaps a lawyer to take further action.
- Not willing to give refund for cancelled book fair
User's recommendation: Don't use them.
Yes Covid was a very unjust thing and it affected many different things, we were not refunded for many events that we had already paid for on behalf of the clients. And so refunding everyone was not a option unfortunately.
We have tried to make other projects and rescheduling of events but this covid thing just keeps dragging out longer and longer. If you were not offered a replacement project please get in touch with us so that we may make it up to you.
Our deepest sympathies on any hardships this may have caused you. Maple Leaf Publishing.
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Look before you leap. These type of criminals ar experts at making things look irresistable!
Nothing to add about Maple Leaf Publishers. After I told them I had recognized vanity publishing in their offer, they never contacted me again.I guess that was proof enough that they are exactly what I thought they were a scam and blood sucking vampires ready to take advantage and exploit aspiring writers who are desperate enough to pay thousands of $ to see their book in print.
My advice as a creative writing teacher and mentor is that you should NEVER pay to have your works published. At least not until you have gathered enough publication credit lists which not only will help you promote the book more easily as your name would have been seen in various publications, whether small or large presses, but it also gives you the confidence and a little bit more assurance that your book will sell some copies. As I said before, there is NOSHORT CUT TO GETTING YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED neither is there one to become a published writer. You need to be patient, submit as much work as possible and always write about the subject you have most knowledge about.
Do not try and write a children's story if your forte is history or travel. Write about what you know and the advantage is that you will enjoy writing at the same time. Don't forget, the more you read about the same subject, the more expertise gained. You have to be careful as well because apparently Harper & Collins have launched what they are calling a subsidiary publisher called Elm Hill for Christian writers which is nothing abut another vanity scheme which they obviously will tell you it's self-publishing or subsidiary publishing.
Another email I am receiving on regular basis is from Tale Flick, which is another scam. These guys will brag about the fact that they are now accepting MSS so they can turn into films or TV serials. At first I submitted samples of the memoirs of one of Europe's top veterinary surgeons that would have matched in quality the 70s BBC TV series, All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot. The difference between my MS which will contain approximately 58 incredible adventures of this vet who was even commissioned to take care of all the exotic animals in the epic film, THE GLADIATOR shot entirely in Malta, is that each and every adventure differs completely from another.
This vet started his career at 17 and studied veterinary surgery in Hungary. That means before he could start on the course he spent a whole year learning the language as all text books and examinations were in Hungarian. The adventures are not just hair-raising at times, but hilarious, dangerous as he is a great sportsman and adventurer not to mention even supernatural. The reply I got after sending them five chapters was that it was not their style.
Now if you manage to find their web site, the submission guidelines clearly tell you that they are after ANYTHING that would make an best selling series or a film! Funny because after almost four and a half decades publishing my work in 16 countries including with Penguin Books, Renaissance Magazine as a regular contributor and having edited many both poetry and short story anthologies, I think I know a good MS when I read one. Nevertheless there is more than the eye can see. Besides having to pay to have your MS read, there are categories of payment, the more you pay, the more preference your book will get and the quicker the reply.
It's been some time since I received invitations from them, but unless they changed their style or submission guidelines, they are close to my description. So beware of publishers that try to make things look too good to be true. There is no such thing as becoming famous unless you work your socks off. Remember that writing is not for everybody, and most certainly not for those wanting to make a quick buck.
If you want to earn big money become a lawyer, a rocket scientist, a surgeon or an architect. Forget writing.
Writing is a vocation and it's 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. It's also a risk because there is NO GUARANTEE you will ever get published.
- False advertisement
- Not real book publicist
- False promises
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Do not under any circumstances hire mapleleaf publishing inc. THEY CHARGED ME
- False promises
Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution
I am sorry Edward but your name does not show up on any of our company records. Please be sure that you are dealing with and only with representatives of Maple Leaf Publishing.
Seems as though some people might be using our good name for some not good porpoises.
If you have any records that you can provide to us maybe we missed something. Maple Leaf Publishing
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Don't answer the phone
Maple Leaf Publishing is our one and only publishing company I can assure you we have never owned a different publishing company. Some of our publicist may have worked for other companies in the past I cannot help that.
Once again please make sure you are working with and only with a Maple Leaf Publishing representative. It seems like others might be using our good name for not good purposes.
Maple Leaf Publishing Inc. Reviews and Complaints https://mapleleafpublishinginc.com
My name is Edward Fisher, the author of the book “The Lands of Inchoate 4th Edition”. Last April 3, 2019, I was contacted by Jessie Lopez, A BOOK PUBLICIST, from MAPLE LEAF PUBLISHING INC CANADA with phone number 1 (40*) 356-**** ext.
206 and toll-free Number 1 (88*) 498-****. Jessie mentioned to me that they got my information from a book expert here in the United States since they saw a good potential to my book that could captivate the heart of the Canadian market. I was offered to republish the book with them making a good and appealing cover, decreasing the retail price and the most promising part was they would convert the book into French for the Canadian market to be penetrated. The whole price was 7,500 USD and asking me to do 30% or at least 2K minimum.
The accent of the one I spoke with was hard and obviously not somebody from Canada nor here in the U.S.The grammar during the discussion was difficult to comprehend and out of the box “sales pitching”. I asked them for a proposal to be sent to my email and to my surprise grammar is off, totally off. Giving it hope and try, since I’ve been dreaming of reaching Canada as they can also be a good market, I should say, I was scammed. I paid 2,000 USD and when my son found out this transaction, he submitted the company for investigation.
What we discovered were extremely horrendous. They don’t have an actual physical office in 3rd Floor 4915 54 Street Red Deer, Alberta T4N 2G7, Canada, they are just paying somebody to receive and forward mail to somewhere in Asia. Surprisingly, they claimed to be in the business for almost a decade, but as per our research, the company is new and just used an alien from Canada to register the business and just gotten their FAKE PAPERS last October 2018. Their website is new upon checking with domain provider and Maple Leaf Publishing Inc have not published any single book upon verifying with Amazon and Indigo Chapters in Canada as of today.
I contacted my credit card company and filed a fraudulent transaction for dispute. God is with me on this, good thing I used my credit card to process the payment since they initially asked me to pay it via Bank Payments or Check.
For heaven’s sake, stop this fraudulent business, Maple Leaf Publishing Inc.
I am old and retired, people like me shouldn’t be taken advantage of. I am calling all authors and aspiring writers to stay away from this company since they are a member of a pyramid scam.
Beware of Maple Leaf Publishing reply and comments on authors’ complaints/reviews in this website. Reply to my complaints against the company was a lie! The above author’s complaint is somewhat a common kind of service that other Maple Leaf Publishing author customers experienced….I was a victim, too!
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Research research research
I believe they are of the same company. Exlibris makes all these promises and in the end, you are left without marketing other than a publicity notice that goes nowhere.
A book that has such poor editing that I could have done it myself and saved the money. This is an over priced vanity publishing company. I simply told the sales person that I didn't need them. Thanked them for the call and hung up.
I can do everything they promise for a whole lot less and have it done really, really well. All authors need to beware of any company that calls you, offering all these wonderful services. They are all scams. Outskirts won't call you and did a good job when I had no idea of what to do for 1/3 the cost of these thieves.
But you can do what they do without paying them. $100 or less for an ebook cover. $49 for Ingram Spark. Free for Amazon and Draft2Digital.
You can do your own covers. You can do your own formatting. You can definitely hire a whole lot better editors.
Avoid these companies like the plague. My rule of thumb: If I didn't contact you, you are getting NOTHING from me other than a few seconds to make your pitch.
Slavery at its finest
- False advertisement
- Slavery
- False promises
Preferred solution: Close this company so that no more authors will experience being scammed
Ok you obviously made this up. This is a fake account set on trying to tear down our company and reputation.
This statement is borderline Libel and should be removed by the Web administrator. Trace Owner
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In case anyone questions the authenticity of this review, I believe it because I had an almost identical experience re. the Saratoga show.
The rep told me he would send photos of my book's participation but he never did, after my repeated requests. He said they bought 5 copies of my book to have there, but I saw no evidence of the purchases, nor of his statement that they were distributed to the "big five" publishers.
I know they were listed in the advance information as a vendor, but I have seen no evidence they were there. Whether they were or not, I feel like I wasted my money.
I am sorry due to some technical difficulties our pictures of the event did not turn out as planned. We can asure you your book was properly displayed and promoted as promised.