BBC Wiltshire Radio love Bookchase. They invited Tony (that’s me) back for a follow-up interview this morning. Sue Davis was standing in for Olly Dearden (who probably couldn’t take the pressure of any more time with Tony (:-)). I’m not sure what Gordon, the Breadman from Gt. Bedwyn will think if he heard himself mentioned - I said that we’d done swaps - free bread between now and Christmas (he delivers locally) and he got a free copy of Bookchase in return. We’re happy - he’s happy (well, he hasn’t played yet…). Roll on Christmas.

In 6 weeks since we launched the website we’ve had over 12,000 visitors from 100 different countries. How have they all found out about us? And we have our own entry on Wikipedia and Board Game Geek. Check them out…

After the launch at Preshute School we’ve been swamped by demand. We’ve had such diverse retail enquires from the British Library to Southwark Cathedral. In our small town of Marlborough we now have three stockists! Ducks - the local toy shop will become the main stockist for us locally - which is great. Waterstone’s have only had their copies for a few days and are already re-ordering after some shops have sold out - which is wonderful news - I only hope we can keep up with demand.

Another exciting thing is the amount of interest we had from parents at the local school. If we replicate their interest just across the UK we could sell over 800,000 copies of Bookchase®. I think 2008 will be the Year of Bookchase. We’re going to have to do Bookchase® signings at this rate…

Well, nearly.

We’re planning to create our own small TV channel to show some fab animations that Joe Davis has done. We’ll also be putting up video of anyone playing the game (including our recent BBC Interview with Olly Dearden - so watch this space - or rather, in hyperspace bookmark - www.bookchase.tv - coming to a web browser near you…

Bookchase® - not just a board game, a new way to read without turning pages…

Yes. It’s true. Today (21 November 2007) we were invited onto the BBC’s quirky and satirical Olly Dearden Show this morning. Noah (co-creator and chief tester), me (Tony Davis) and James Smith - Head of Noah’s School in Preshute, Marlborough. What fun!

They trailed the programme by interviewing people in the street about playing board games. The interview itself seemed to go very well but I was quite nervous as Olly was described on the BBC’s website as potentially satirical and unusual. Still Joe Davis was on hand to film the whole experience for evidence just in case things got out of hand. So watch this space for a possible video/audio experience if you missed the broadcast.

See Olly looking quite excited about meeting Tony and seeing Bookchase® for the first time - Click here for Olly Dearden’s Show. Seriously though, a big thank you to Alex Emery, Will Walder and Olly for making us so welcome. I feel a challenge match of Bookchase® with BBC Journalists coming on…