How To Come Up With a Topic

by Chris T. Kat

Hello, I’m Chris T. Kat, visiting the lovely Blogger Girls again. Thank you very much for the opportunity to be a guest on your blog. eXtasy books published my new release, Unicorn Rescue, on August 15th.

Doing a blog tour to promote a new release is standard procedure for most authors. I admit when I started about two and a half years ago, I didn’t do a blog tour because I had no clue how the whole promotion business worked. Well, I haven’t found the holy grail of promotion, but at least I know more now. I’ve had my share of blog tours, with some successful ones and some, um, not so successful ones. So, as I sat down to write a guest post for Unicorn Rescue, I stared at the screen, wondering what the topic should be.

I’ve written a lot of guest posts in the last years and I don’t like to repeat myself (not much anyway ^_^). Now what did I do, when nothing came to mind?

1. Checked the list I made with possible guest post topics. Blergh! So boring! Moving on.
2. Pulled up the documents I received during various blog tours with suggested blog topics. Playlist? Hmm, I don’t remember which songs I listened to when I wrote Unicorn Rescue. Deleted Scenes? I don’t have even one. Things that inspire me? Since I can be inspired by a peg, that could get out of hand. So I moved on again.
3. Browse the internet for suggestions. First five pages in Google search brought up all kinds of documents and blog posts. Unfortunately, I already had all these documents saved on my computer. Obviously, I wasn’t doing this search for the first time… Then, hooray! Found a new list but, yes, you’ve guessed right. The topics weren’t for me. Talk about how you acquired an agent? Haha. Me and an agent—that sounded laughable. I could’ve talked about how I became a bestselling author, and how I managed to sell thousands of copies in a week. Right. There’s just a gap in that logic—I’m not a bestselling author. You guessed right: I moved on. Again.
4. Which brings me to the here and now. Maybe, readers and other authors would like to read about my struggle to come up with an interesting topic. Not sure if that’s going to work but I guess I’ll find out soon.

Dear readers, what kind of guest posts do you like to read? Interviews? Something related to the author? Or are you more interested in background information for the book? I’m curious! If you’re an author, how do you come up with interesting guest post topics?

About Unicorn Rescue

A search for missing unicorns reveals a Fate that Samuel has only dreamed of before.

When they first meet, Jordan takes Samuel’s breath away—but not in a good way. Jordan knocks Samuel, a gatekeeper from a world called Eden, flat on his ass. In Jordan’s defense, Samuel did freak him out, appearing out of thin air the way he did. Luckily, the appearance of the unicorns preempts a possible fight.

Relieved to have found Eden’s unicorns, Samuel is astonished that Jordan knows about them, despite the fact that their horns have been concealed by magic. Attempting to remove the halters that bind them, Samuel is rendered unconscious.

The question now is how to get the unicorns back to Eden, as well as solve the mystery of who has stolen them to begin with. But just maybe Samuel and Jordan need to deal with this attraction between them that seems to be growing by leaps and bounds. Are their feelings tied in with the mystery of the unicorns?

Available at: eXtasy Books

An Excerpt from Unicorn Rescue

A whicker interrupted Jordan’s stammer and he jumped. Samuel sighed as he turned his attention to the big, white horse striding toward them. A blue halter sat snug around its head and it flicked its ears back and forth. The halter was wrong, so very wrong. No unicorn should ever be burdened with something so mundane.

“Hello, Ariel,” Samuel greeted her, and brushed a gentle hand over Ariel’s soft nose.

“Gatekeeper,” she said.

Samuel winced. Right. Gatekeeper. That was him. Now if he’d only managed to keep all gates closed—at least the ones he was responsible for. But no, someone had accomplished to not only open a gate but to keep it open while, at the same time, concealing that the gate was open. Worst of all, this same person had abducted Eden’s unicorns. A nightmare in itself because, without the unicorns’ combined powers, Eden’s plants would wilt and the sun lose its power.

“It speaks? I-I mean I know it’s a unicorn and all, but it can speak?” Jordan asked, baffled.

Of course he’d seen Jordan caress Ariel’s horn in Selina’s crystal ball but to hear him ask about her, without any trace of timidness, perplexed Samuel. He asked, “You know what she is?”

“It’s quite obvious, isn’t it?”

Samuel gazed back at Ariel, who stood silent, her head hanging low. She inspected him from sad, dark eyes, and Samuel swallowed. A spell had been cast around her to give her the appearance of a white horse, but of course he could see through it. He’d always know her and her companions, no matter the attempted disguise. But for someone on the other side of the barrier to notice it? That was trouble in the making.

“Doesn’t she look like a horse to you?” he asked.

“I saw Don bring her in, then do whatever he did to disguise the horn. I thought I’d dreamed it, but you can still feel the horn. I guess it only works when you’re not close. He did the same to the other four.” Jordan pointed to the other unicorns that loomed as large, dark shadows in the night.

About Chris T. Kat

Chris T. Kat lives in the middle of Europe, where she shares a house with her husband of many years and their two children. She stumbled upon the M/M genre by luck and was swiftly drawn into it. She divides her time between work, her family—which includes chasing after escaping horses and lugging around huge instruments such as a harp—and writing. She enjoys a variety of genres, such as mystery/suspense, paranormal, and romance. If there’s any spare time, she happily reads for hours, listens to audiobooks or does cross stitch.

You can find Chris on her Blog, Twitter, Goodreads, Facebook or Amazon Author Page.

In this giveaway, you’ll have TWO chances to win! First chance is to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway (just click the link below!) and you’ll be entered for a chance to win your choice of a backlist title from Chris T. Kat. This part of the giveaway starts now and ends on Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 11:59 p.m.

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In addition, TWO random commenters from all of the blog tour stops will get a chance to win one of two cool coin purses!

All you have to do for a chance to win the coin purse is comment on this post. This contest ends August 21st, 2014. Don’t forget to include your email in your comment or else the author won’t be able to contact you about your prize!

Don’t forget to check out Nikyta’s review of Unicorn Rescue to see what she thought of it!

Good luck!