Four is the number of years since Carson City resident and author Sharon Marie Provost received a cancer diagnosis. Seven is the number of books she’s written or co-written since then.

In July, she and her husband, author and publisher Stephen H. Provost, ventured cross-country in a 2016 Chevy Malibu to attend the Imaginarium Convention in Louisville, Ky., where, like a feather in her cap, Sharon received an Imadjinn Award for best short story collection.

“It meant a lot,” Sharon said. “It was just amazing to hear that somebody else had seen merit in what I had written and that obviously it was not just the same old, same old, that they saw something different and worth reading.”

The 48-year-old has been on a prolific literary streak since not only her diagnosis, but since leaving her l

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