But other than that, I’m still very proud of it, and of the time and care I took with every footnote. Looking back, I might have written more personally if I had written at a later point in my life. He could always defend it intellectually, even though he hated all that “religion stuff”. I think on a very deep psychological level, I did write the book to be one that my atheist father could be proud of, and he was. It is often the book people give their parents or someone else who they think will be very skittish learning about the Craft. It is still the way many people come to understand Paganism. I think the fact that this book is read in small town libraries, in prisons, etc. I know I didn’t get a single penny of royalties until after the revised edition came out. Then in 1986, the revised edition really took off, and that edition with the fabulous red and black cover and the big resource section was when I think it made a deep impact. Viking only published five thousand copies, and Beacon bought the paperback rights for about $4000 dollars, and put out a paperback edition with a very unexciting cover with Janet Farrar on it. Margot: The book’s real popularity didn’t happen for the first few years. TWPT : Did you have any idea that your book would be so popular that it would be on most recommended reading lists for those who were considering the Wiccan/Pagan paths? How does that make you feel knowing that you are for many seekers the introduction to these brand new worlds of spirituality?
In an interview with “ TWPT: The Wiccan / Pagan Times” Margot answered this question I remember reading the book and going “Wow, wow, wow!” It underwent several revisions as new groups were added.
This was coincidentally the year I was initiated.
My first recollection of Margot was as author of the book Drawing down the Moon, first published in 1979, Viking Press. So when she passed away in July 2014 it still came as a shock. The last meeting was at PantheaCon, San Jose, in February 2014.Īlthough we knew that Margot was suffering from cancer – we even did some healing work for her at PantheaCon – she never complained. I was fortunate to meet Margot on several occasions in England, the Netherlands and in America. PantheaCon 2014 with Margot, Morgana, Selena Fox & Rowan Fairgrove
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