Joseph Evaldi's Blog

Hello, everybody. Happy New Year. Last Year I featured blogs about my book A Soul Warrior's Journey that was released. Also last year I released my book Apparitions of a Warrior which was my book of poetry on Amazon, Barnes and Noble database and whatever online bookstore it can be found at. This year I have an idea of what I want to do for a book, but my main focus this year will be blogging. I took some time off from writing at least some well deserved time. I was at my book A Soul Warrior's Journey for 2 1/2 years and also put time and effort into Apparitions of a Warrior. This year I will spend sometime promoting my books, but I want to write new stuff and revisit a series that I was working on a while ago that I failed to post considering I will visit it again with this new year. This series is called The Struggle to Hollywood. It is a story about four people graduating from Acting school and they try to get their big break in Hollywood. They meet every month to let ea

I am happy to say that A Soul Warrior's Journey is released and ready for sale. It can be found on Create Space or Amazon and it will be on paperback. For those who are interested in the book and from Europe, The book can be found on Amazon Europe. Give it 4 to 6 weeks and it will be in the databases of stores, libraries and universities. Also, sorry I have not written in this blog for a while, but I have been working feverishly to get A Soul Warrior's Journey out to the public and now it is here I have time to write to you. Nothing has changed with what I am going to do with this site. I still have a few bios to do of characters in this book. I also want to discuss some themes in the book that I wrote about and what inspired me to write about it. I finally have time to do that and the end of this month and next month I will be working hard to get these blogs out. My book has been out on Amazon Kindle to, but I have not promoted it because there were glitches in it. Now I a

In A Soul Warrior's Journey, a character's name will be changed. On March 13, 2013, the name Pope Francis was selected. About a year ago, I had written this name in my book. If anyone doesn't believe me, I have the copy of the proof of my book dating February 22, 2013 and it had the name Pope Francis in it. However, I am changing the name out of respect and to avert confusion in my book. The new name I will select to be the Pope in my book is Pope Francis Xavier. This is out of the name of St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis Xavier was a missionary, who extended Christianity to the realms of Japan and China. He was also a Jesuit. I was stunned and shocked that this cardinal would choose a name that I have written in my book. What are the chances of that? I hope you keep reading my blogs and buy the book A Soul Warrior's Journey when it comes out on print.

This is a bio of Pope Francis in my book A Soul Warriors Journey. The name I selected a year ago for my book it was supposed to be from the Fransican order of St. Francis and I wrote the pope in after a miracle that took place. To my surprise the pope got elected today and his name was Pope Francis. If anyone doesn't believe me my unedited book is on Amazon kindle and I didn't change anything yet. This might be a prediction of the next pope that came true

Last I wrote in this blog, I was telling you about my website http://www.josephevaldi.com and the release of my book A Soul Warrior's Journey on Amazon Kindle. The theme of the month of February had been push push and push with no regards. I had a wave of ambition come over me as I release a whole lot more. Now when reading this I want you to think that I have to repair what I have done now. First after releasing the website and the book on Amazon Kindle. I had proof of my book sent so I could edit and change mistakes in the book. I then started a website that goes hand and hand with my new company Evaldi Marketing. http://www.evaldimarketing.vpweb.com . This site is good, but needs repairs to. I also rereleased my old book on Amazon Kindle The Amazing Effects of Water . Last week I was setting up the logistics of Evaldi Marketing which markets advertising for other companies for a fee and also markets other writers on my websites. Business is slow now, but I have a feeling i

This past week from Thursday to today I have been busy. I downloaded my book A Soul Warrior's Journey on Amazon Kindle and I have downloaded my book on print on demand. That would mean if people wanted to they could get that book on createspace.com or Amazon. It is a little more for the book then the ebook. It will be $12.99 for the book and $7.99 for the ebook. Another thing I have been working on is my new website  http://www.josephevaldi.com . I figure with all the ideas I have going for me now it's time for a new website to market them. In this website I feature a short story series called A Struggle to Hollywood. It is a story about four actors who are trying to break it into Hollywood. Other features on the site are excerpt from my book A Soul Warrior's Journey and my other writings or writings of others. It should be a good site. I know it seems that I have not written in this blog for awhile, but I will write in it again and I will continue to write about the bo

In A Soul Warrior's Journey, Ericka Andersen is the daughter of Matteus Andersen. After the murder of her mother and Matteus's wife, Ericka and Matteus had split up in different areas of the U.S. They kept in contact though. Until a journey to Egypt brings them together again. She warns him of the danger of going back and winds up going back to Egypt to. Ericka then meets Joseph Woods and helps him out spiritually. She helps him deal with the problems he is having. They are on guard for danger from Meir Ben-Haim and Darius of whom Joseph doesn't trust. The role of Ericka, even though little is mentioned about her she is an important member of the cast. Her interests are in Philosophy, meditation and herbal healing.

     This blog will be about the character Paul Franks in A Soul Warrior's Journey. Paul Franks is a friend of Joseph Woods. For those who have not been following this blog. Joseph Woods is a character in the book who has addiction problem and he bumps into an acupuncturist to help him with some of his problems. Paul gives Joseph a hard time, but not as much as their mutual friend Shawn Williams.      Paul has given Joseph a hard time, but his views change after Joseph leaves the group for a little bit. Once he goes out with Stephanie. He starts to see the true colors of Shawn. As Shawn flirts with Stephanie, despite having a girlfriend in Emily Dickens. Emily is the women that Joseph once had a crush on, but she fell for Shawn and went with Shawn with Joseph seeing them.      Emily than sees Shawn with Stephanie and tells Paul, but Shawn tries to lie. Paul gets suspicious and asks for Joseph for help. Joseph is brought back into the their story. The story unfolds.      Paul&

When I was thinking of Horus I was thinking of the god in Egypt who was the god of vengence, and I was also envisioning him to look a little like Horus Hogan, who is the nephew of Hulk Hogan. Horus Hogan wrestled in WCW for a little bit. Horus Hogan was tall and about 6 foot 8 and the Horus in this book was 6 foot 8 too. Horus, ironically in A Soul Warrior's Journey is a body guard of Meir Ben-Haim. He doesn't say that much, but is ruthless. He doesn't care if he hurts someone. He is the muscle in Egypt. The name Horus fits him well. I wanted to add this dilemma to the book. I wanted to add somebody that was threatening and he plays this role. He also will play in when a swerve happens in the book. Why would this book call for this character? In any book there are good guys and villians and Horus's role in this book is no different.

     Louis DeLeone is the supervior of Joseph Woods at JP Nickels. He looks out for the best interest of Joseph Woods and cheers him up. He sees him down and advises him on how to channel his anger. He is like a big brother that Joseph needs at this time.      Louis has problems of his own such as poor finances and he drinks sometimes, but is not an alcoholic. He deals with life and figures he deals with so much suffering he might as well take more problems on.      He plays his role well and supports Joseph in his time of need and is a friend of him. His story is important and will be important as the series goes along. He is one of the minor characters in the book and one of Joseph's side stories through his life of transformation.

     Why did I choose Egypt for Part II of my book? I believe Egypt has been a mystical and a mysterious place and it is also spiritual too. Egypt has early history from the building of the pyramids and the sphinx and also with the pharoahs too. I wanted my character Joseph Woods to have past life links to Egypt and this life time would draw him back to spiritual work to try to resolve the problem in this life time.      However, I also wanted to add some of the modern day problems of Egypt such as the protest that happened in 2011 to get their ruler Mubarak out. However, this ruler's name that they want out is Meir Ben-Haim. They still fight over who has control such as if it's going to be the people, the government, or the military.      Egypt has their issues just like then, but I wanted to convey the people as being ghosts of their former selves. Where they were once promenant many millenium ago, they now strive to be the people they once were. The return to prominence.

If you can make it anywhere, you can make it in New York. This is why I wanted the first setting to be in New York. I added the coffee house feel just as in the show Friends. It also adds to the story of Joseph Woods who is struggling through life. Plus he is going to have a spiritual battle to fight of he is going to make it. It also adds to the time of year I made it around Christmas, New Years, and Spring. That is where things start to turn around for Joseph. New York is a big city that anything can happen in and this is what I wanted to convey in the book. For Joseph Woods, who is trying to find himself what better place to find your destiny in a place where dreams can come true.

When I think of the ancient times, I think of the name Darius. And I was thinking of a character in Highlander The Series when I was thinking of this character. The holy man, but has a past by being an evil ruler. Only difference between this Darius and the one in the Highlander is that this Darius is truly evil.      He has a few years of training from the Vatican and is a spiritual advisor, but who knows what kind of spiritual advising he does. He took over advising Meir after the botch healing attempt of Matteus Andersen. However, Darius changes his tune when he meets Joseph Woods and goes on the mission they are trying to accomplish. He is out to sabatage Joseph and inflict hurt on him. He is working with the spirits who are out to haunt Joseph and won't stop until he gets their revenge. He is just good at hiding it though.      Darius might be another kind of spiritual healer, but it's not the good kind. He has pure evil in his heart and does not care about the good he

     Picture that jackass friend who always goats you and isn't out for your best interest. This is Shawn Williams. Another thing about Shawn is that he was a controlling person and a womanizer as well.      His story starts at the beginning of the book. Where he is friends with Joseph Woods and Paul Franks. Joseph Woods and Shawn Williams were friends for a long time, but what happened after Joseph's illness changed the landscape of their friendship.      5 years later Shawn is coming down hard on Joseph Woods for his addiction problems and his depression. Shawn was controlling wondering where Joseph was and why he wasn't there to hang out with them all the time. This drove Joseph to get upset.      He later brought back Emily Dickens, a woman whom Joseph Woods had a crush on. Shawn didn't care that it might hurt Joseph. His plan was to hurt Joseph and get some action for himself. He later went with Emily and Joseph saw it. Maybe it was intentional or maybe it wa

     Who is Emily Dickens? In A Soul Warrior's Journey she is the woman whom my character in the book Joseph Woods loved, but she didn't love back. Like many love stories you can't force love and this one didn't happen. Joseph Woods tried hard and was pushing the issue. He couldn't get her to like him in that way. This story is similar to a woman that I once like, but didn't like me in that way back. I'm glad it didn't happen because I'm happier now and it worked out for the best for both of us to.      Here is the story of Emily, in the beginning of the book Joseph has a crush on Emily like I mentioned, but she has feelings for Derrick Nylander. Joseph's rival at the time. Joseph liked her because she was his array of hope when there was none for him, but Joseph got burned bad and snapped. He later went into the hospital for his actions.      A few years later Joseph is depressed more so, is a gambling addict and is a sex addict. He hangs ou

     Power in leadership corrupts and with Meir Ben-Haim in A Soul Warrior's Journey his ruthlessness in Egypt as ruler he carries out his actions as follows and is hated by all of Egypt. When he is written into the book his speaking role starts in Part II of the book. To paint a scenario for you, he is the ruthless leader in Egypt and like the Arab Springs and revolution that took place in Egypt for freedom, they want Meir and his regime out. They don't like how things are run and they want a new regime to take over. However, Meir and his chief general, General Akbar believe otherwise.      They believe in keeping things the old ways and also they believe that the people don't know what's best for them. They fight for this, but the people revolt. At the same time, Meir wants to carry out his vendetta against Matteus Andersen. It was his understanding that Matteus had botched a healing attempt on him and he wants revenge and he wants blood.      When he finds out th

     Matteus Andersen is introduced in this book in the second chapter of this book. He gets bumped into by Joseph Woods, who is battling his addictions. He then develops into a mentor to Joseph. When I was thinking of a mentor of this character I was thinking of Socrates in the Way of a Peaceful Warrior and Wil in The Celestine Prophecy series. He helps him with his dilemmas and helps him unlock some of his past lives that he has had.      Matteus also like Joseph Woods has dealt with his own issues of revenge or the refrain from it. His wife was burned alive by the authority of Meir Ben-Haim, the leader of Egypt. He is said to retaliate do to a botched healing attempt which made him become the evil dictator he is right now. Matteus and his daughter Ericka later fled to the United States and Matteus started to practice Acupunture in the US in New York. He vowed not to return to Egypt, but Joseph Woods past life memories lead him back to fulfill a journey to Egypt risk danger from Me

     In my upcomining book A Soul Warrior's Journey, here is a bio of one of the characters in the book Joseph Woods. Joseph Woods is battling many issues. He had an episode where he went to the hospital and he was battling depression, but it developed into anger and later he was heavily medicated and wasn't the same again.      A few years later, he became a gambling addict and a sex addict and he was on a downward spiral going nowhere and it was eating him alive. Then one day he bumped into Matteus Andersen, who was an acupuncturist. This chance meeting had changed his life and led him on a spiritual journey or a soul journey.      In this journey he finds out about his past lives through dreams, meditation and acupuncture. Some of the dreams and meditations in the book are some dreams and meditions that me as a writer have had and experienced.      These dreams, meditations and acupuncture sessions takes him on a soul journey that takes him to lives that he has lived i

     Part II of A Soul Warrior's Journey takes place where Joseph Woods, Matteus Andersen, and Ericka Andersen have a journey to Egypt and they need to fulfill a mission in the seven pyramids and the sphinx. This is a mission to free the spirits that are haunting Joseph Woods. They all need to perform certain ceremonies to free those spirits. However, they are in the territory of Meir Ben-Haim the ruler of Egypt and he is out for revenge on Matteus Andersen. It was his understanding that Matteus messed him up with his healing.      Meir has General Akbar to hunt Joseph, Matteus and his friends down. Meir seeks advice from Darius his spiritual advisor now. Meir has connections in the Vatican and has practiced for years, but can Darius be trusted. As the book reveals, he is on a mission of his own.       This part of the book is an adventure and it is a good read and will set the stage for book number two. The next blogs I will discuss a little bit about the characters in the boo

      What is A Soul Warrior's Journey? It is a book that I have written that is yet to be published. I started working on in September 2010 and I finished it in the Summer of 2012. My plans are to release this book on an ebook, but let me explain or give a brief summary of the book. Then in future blogs I will discuss about the characters in the book and the themes.       In A Soul Warrior's Journey, the main character is Joseph Woods. He is a gambling and sex addict who one day bumps into Matteus Andersen, who an acupuncturist. It's the one day that changes his life and sets him on a soul journey. Matteus counsels him out of his addictions and through his various problems and with acupuncture he discovers his past life memories which lie in Egypt. He was a benevolent ruler and he is paying karma in this lifetime as spirits haunt him.      At the same time, he is dealing with his friend Shawn Williams, who reminds him of his failures and of Emily Dickens a woman whom h