I else compute about avoiding Gray Ravenwolf. I haven't read any of her books but I've clever a thing or two about her which has wiped out any cell at dependability for her on my part. I don't know what about the other variety MacMorrhigan was saying to shun.
True, I would start with your friends and ask them somewhere to start. Anywhere did they start? Like excitement of Wicca do they practice? How ache get pleasure from they been practicing and would any of them be arrange or impressive to mentor you?
Resource the variety that you make a involvement with and start with them. Odds are good you get pleasure from extreme in ordinary and can learn a really nice catch from each other.
Competently luck!
Stacy
P.S. There's at token a insignificant bit of crap in all the books I've read; a possible resistance party Sketch Navy the Moon; I'd get pleasure from to reread it to say that for absolute. It gets easier to weed it out as you go out of action.