Spark&Query Press: ideas, books, better questions

  1. What’s worth the argument?

    Ideas.Books.Betterquestions.

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What’s on the table?

The list

Cover of The Advocacy Advantage

Who would speak up for you?

The Advocacy Advantage

Shane Lukas

Who’s asking: me, or all of us?

SparkStart

70 question cards + how-to

Who else is making good books?

Small presses

Presses to ignite the spark

02 · The card deck

Who’s asking: me, or all of us?

SparkStart

Seventy questions in five categories, for a table of friends or a notebook of one. Draw a card. Ask it out loud. See what connects.

See the deck
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What have we noticed?

Observations

  1. 2026.10.19 · Obs. 012 · ScalawagHorror has always been political (opens in a new tab)Pushes back on the idea that political horror is a recent trend by tracing the genre’s response to war, civil rights and more back to its earliest films. It made us ask what else we call “new” because we weren’t looking.
  2. 2026.10.19 · Obs. 011 · AutostraddleI Can’t Get ‘Freddy’s Dead’ Out of My Head (opens in a new tab)A defense of a much-mocked slasher sequel that reads its empty, childless town alongside today’s fights over book bans and “parental rights.” A playful essay with a serious question about who pays for adults’ choices.
  3. 2026.10.12 · Obs. 010 · Find Your Cause · From our author, Shane LukasShane Lukas on the Cowboy Myth Every Activist Believes — and Why Going It Alone Doesn’t Work (opens in a new tab)A podcast conversation questioning the image of the lone activist who changes everything single-handedly. If change is collective, what do we owe the people we work alongside?

All observations

04 · Every Monday

What if your best idea starts with a question?

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One concept, two questions to sit with and one small quest, every Monday. It’s free, it’s a deck of its own, and it’s part of Spark&Query Press.

It starts Monday, January 4, with a new card every Monday.

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