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A day for indie authors to sell their books
Mission
To celebrate, elevate, and build career infrastructure for New Mexico writers, authors, poets, and small press publishers.
Santa Fe 2027
More to come!
Sage & Ink Writers Festival
Vision: A New Mexico where statewide literary and writing talent has the same visibility, support, and career pathways as authors and writers from elsewhere, anchored by a permanent festival and, eventually, a year-round literary hub.
The Opportunity for Writers
New Mexico has a vibrant literary community, but it doesn’t have a festival created to help writers and authors grow and thrive.
The Santa Fe International Literary Festival does something important: it brings world-renowned authors to New Mexico.
Sage & Ink Writers Festival asks a different question: what about writers already here?
New Mexico’s indie authors, writers, screenwriters, poets, and small press publishers have solid roots in this state — and nowhere that exists specifically to celebrate and serve them.
Sage & Ink fills that gap.
Inaugural Event: The Block, Rio Rancho
A free, public marketplace day on November 7th, 2026, from 11am – 4pm at The Block in Rio Rancho, co-hosted with indie bookstore Enchanted Books.
- Authors, publishers, and book groups table and selling directly to readers
- One to two panel discussions
- Set against The Block’s shipping-container aesthetic, alongside its food vendors
This is the proof of concept: building community, bringing in our first cohort of New Mexico writers and publishers, and creating a track record to bring to funders heading into 2027.
Phase 2: Santa Fe – Spring/Fall 2027 — Where Craft Meets Career
A two-day festival to help writers and authors further their career and to celebrate literary talent in the Land of Enchantment.
Event will include:
- Focused panels such as how to indie publish, spoken word as a career path, books to screen, and getting a book to its audience.
- Indie author awards ceremony
- Pitch competition
- Query letter clinic
- Scheduled one-on-one sessions
- Networking and relationship-building opportunities
- (subject to change)
This is career infrastructure for writers serious about their work, not just a celebration.
Services
Whole Healthy Group is an independent publisher and also provides limited consultancy services to help with book publishing, marketing, and promotion, as well as event production.
About
Diane Hatz is CEO Founder of Whole Healthy Group LLC, a consulting, special events and publishing company working to maximize health of mind, body, and spirit.
She is the creator of A Writer’s Life with Diane Hatz, a Substack and YouTube podcast on indie writing, creativity, and life in the second half.
She is an award-winning author and has published three fictional books, Rock Gods & Messy Monsters, Fallen Spirits and The Light of Wounds. Her debut novel, Rock Gods & Messy Monsters, has earned numerous honors, including First Runner-up, 2024 Eric Hoffer Award in Science Fiction & Fantasy.
Diane was also Founder/Organizer of TEDxManhattan, Founder/Executive Director of nonprofit Change Food, Impact Producer at film production company Participant, Mentor to artists at Creative Capital Foundation as well as entrepreneurs in food startups, plus much more.
