YOUR BEST LIFE NOW, by Joel Osteen (Warner Faith, $19.99.)

New York: Warner Faith, 2004.

(Warner Faith, $18.95.)

"Your Best Life," Mr. Osteen said, went through 10 versions with his editors at Warner Faith "until I felt it was right."

(Warner Faith, $23.99.)

(Warner Faith, $22.99.)

His publisher, Warner Faith, provided a private jet for his tour to promote the book, "Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential," which has 2.8 million copies in print.

(Warner Faith, $19.99.)

Mr. Osteen's contract follows the enormous success of "Your Best Life Now," published in 2004 by Warner Faith, a division of the Time Warner Book Group.

The effort to woo Mr. Osteen away from Warner Faith, his previous publisher, was intense.