Over the course of my last three posts I have indicated what my original idea was for the book How Jesus Became God.    When I first started writing the proposal for the book (as you have seen it) I had planned to write it with Oxford University Press.  But about three or four years ago I made a career decision.   At that point I had published three trade books with HarperOne (an imprint of Harper Collins, the branch that publishes in religious studies).  All three of them had made it onto the New York Times Bestseller list.   That had never happened to me before.  A lot of that is luck, but it takes a *ton* of work from the publisher to make it even possible.   I think Oxford is an absolutely terrific press.  In my opinion they are absolutely among the best press in the world at publishing scholarly monographs and *are* the best at publishing college level textbooks in religious studies.  But they are not as geared toward trade books.  With Harper, on the [...]