A. Rushby adores cities with long, winding histories; wild, overgrown cemeteries; redbrick Victorian museums; foxes; tea; and ivy. A. Rushby | Photo courtesy of BerkleyIn this interview, Rushby discusses all the research that went into writing her new historical fiction, Slashed Beauties, her advice for other writers, and more. I first came upon the idea for Slashed Beauties after seeing an anatomical Venus in a museum in Vienna. She had long flowing locks of real hair, dewy waxen skin, an erotic expression, and … her entrails on display. Slashed Beauties was a total book of the heart—I had no real reason to write it (I am an established author in the children’s space), but I wrote it anyway for the sheer love of it.