Breakout and You

Full title: The Breakout and You: The coming of Magic
Author: Karl Kolchak, Kalvin Watterson
Published: 2016 Freedom Press
Format: Deadtree and E-book
Content: It is an attempt to warn the general public what to expect from the coming magic Breakout and to suggest methods and strategies for dealing with this event.
The book contains a chapter thumb nailing magic, and detailing the dangers of messing with Magic when improperly prepared, as well as suggestions for how to be prepared.
It also contains a chapter on Demi-Humans and how such changes might effect people, including strong cautions that altered people are not monsters and should not be treated as monsters. A special chapter discusses changes within families.
The book details a worst case scenario, a moderate scenario, and best case scenario. The advice is necessarily somewhat vague. The basics boil down to disaster preparedness. Stock supplies in the home and be ready to ride out periods of disruption. Have bug out bags, and a plan for evacuating if necessary.
A discussion of neighborhood watches and militia, in which it is pointed out that shooters are only one end of a militia, that support people are badly needed and may be more so. They suggest positioning yourself as ad hoc search and rescue or ad hoc medical response, or even ad hoc emergency transportation as a much more positive and flexible approach to a neighborhood militia than just a bunch of men with various guns.
Much the preparedness is cribbed from Red Cross and FEMA sources backed up with various anecdotes Kalvin shares of periods of civic disruption.
It adds the recommendations to get to know your neighbors and form ties with them since they'll be your support structure when power goes off and things get weird for a while.
There is a brief discussion of divine magic and the Enlightenment Movement, but this is just enough to cover the basics and refer people to other works on the topic. 
==Reaction==
This time they were waiting for it. Those that railed against Karl the last time, Neo-conservative punditry, pounced almost before the ink was dry. A bit too fast in fact as the first bad reviews actually preceded the press copies. Freedom Press noted this and delayed the release long enough for the too early reviews to fly back in the faces of those that jumped the gun. 
Less prejudicial reviewers have called the book a sobering wake up call. A must have primer for the coming troubles. 
The End Times Movement types have labeled the book a distraction from what they know is the truth.
Kalvin and Karl have also made some money addressing corporate meetings on the topic. (It is amazing the types that consider their business to be too vital to interrupt. Looking at you Wall Street. Meanwhile Karl and Kalvin rake it in.)
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