Hi,
Glad you got it to burst at the chapter.
Looking at your bcf, you have a leading "/". This isn't necessary because the adapter will look within the current context where the user is signed into. It is a relative path to the root folder of the product or library. So, if your context is a library named "Arbortext_Test", then your location would simply be Arbortext_Test/topics.
Further, I didn't see any namerule or typerule definitions. If you don't have any subtypes, then typerule isn't necessary, but I would assume you would want to control the name of the bursted content with namerules.
Hope that helps!
-Jeff