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���Talking with Bahni Turpin�

In June 2019, Bahni was inducted as a Golden Voice, AudioFile's lifetime achievement honor for audiobook narrators.

What has surprised you the most about your work in audiobooks?

Well, it’s all been sort of a surprise.

When I first started, another actress that I was in a play with told me that Random House was having auditions for people to read books on tape, as they were then called. I went out there, and Dan Musselman and Janet Stark gave me a piece of copy to read.

It was many months before they called me to read my first audiobook, and that was A PIECE OF CAKE, by Cupcake Brown. Cassandra Campbell directed me, and she basically taught me how to do it. She would tell me when to take a break--every 30 pages or so, you want to stop, pace yourself, rest your voice for a minute.

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I liked it, and for years, I only worked with Random House. It was a little windfall whenever I got this work, a little extra. It wasn’t something that I