Julia Chapman
@juliachapman.bsky.social
Writer with permanent wanderlust. Author of the Dales Detective Series and of the Fogas Chronicles (as Julia Stagg). Love cycling. Fell running. And the Dales.
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Julia Chapman
@juliachapman.bsky.social
· Nov 11
🥳🥳🥳 NUMBER ONE Audiobook!! I need a strong cup of Ida tea 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks to all who made it happen and to the wonderful Elizabeth Bower for the brilliant narration... #DateWithDeath #TopOfTheCharts 🥰
Funny, they weren't the words that sprang to mind... 🤔😂
The two words you need to help you push back at work
Ambition and work ethic help us succeed, but how can we stop drive damaging our health?
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Funny, they weren't the words that sprang to mind... 🤔😂
When you're on your way to do an interview and you're passing these beauties... #NotYorkshire 😁
September 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
When you're on your way to do an interview and you're passing these beauties... #NotYorkshire 😁
Also a good spot for a murder... #DateWithJustice 😁
During the late 19th century, demand for lime grew and industrial-sized kilns were built. The former Craven Lime Works has examples of three different types, including the impressive Hoffmann kiln, the best-preserved in England.
📸 Mark Sadler | #YorkshireDales #TuesdayThoughts
📸 Mark Sadler | #YorkshireDales #TuesdayThoughts
July 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Also a good spot for a murder... #DateWithJustice 😁
A day made for riding your bike to a café... 🌞🚴♀️🍰😁
July 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A day made for riding your bike to a café... 🌞🚴♀️🍰😁
June 2, 2025 at 12:59 PM
When you choose to spend your bank holiday in the wind and rain, marshalling a local fell race... perfect excuse for a cheeky run 😉😂🌬🏃♀️☔️
May 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
When you choose to spend your bank holiday in the wind and rain, marshalling a local fell race... perfect excuse for a cheeky run 😉😂🌬🏃♀️☔️
This weather...🌞🚴♀️🥰
May 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This weather...🌞🚴♀️🥰
When you're out so early, even the sheep aren't up yet... #SundayRun 🏃♀️🌞🥰
May 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
When you're out so early, even the sheep aren't up yet... #SundayRun 🏃♀️🌞🥰
Clouts being cast left right and centre up here in the Dales!! 🌞🌞🌞
May 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Clouts being cast left right and centre up here in the Dales!! 🌞🌞🌞
Couldn't sum up better how I feel about today! 👏👏👏
Here’s a reflective mash-up of “White Cliffs of Dover” & “Over the Rainbow” we made about VE Day and where we’re at 80 years on. Dedicated to Great Grandad (DFC as an RAF pilot, 619 Squadron, Lancasters) - his favourite saying was "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
youtu.be/xAZBpukSc2M
youtu.be/xAZBpukSc2M
"VE Day 80" adaptation by The Marsh Family of "White Cliffs of Dover" & "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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May 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Couldn't sum up better how I feel about today! 👏👏👏
🥳 Publication alert! Out today in Spain - the first book in the Dales Detective series. Ida's going to need her Factor 50 🌞😁🤣
May 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
🥳 Publication alert! Out today in Spain - the first book in the Dales Detective series. Ida's going to need her Factor 50 🌞😁🤣
This. Just this. 👏👏👏
If publishing actually wants more working class writers, more POC writers, more trans writers, more disabled writers, more *any* marginalised writers, the solution is really simple:
PAY THEM.
Give writers enough money to live and they'll give you all the words you want.
PAY THEM.
Give writers enough money to live and they'll give you all the words you want.
UK-wide initiative launched to tackle marginalisation of working-class writers
May 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This. Just this. 👏👏👏
When you go for an evening walk and discover a new path... priceless
May 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
When you go for an evening walk and discover a new path... priceless
Stunning sky yesterday evening - perfect for a murder-plotting walk 🌞
May 3, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Stunning sky yesterday evening - perfect for a murder-plotting walk 🌞
Too nice not to... 🚴♀️🌞🥰 (Now back at my laptop and working hard 😅😁)
April 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Too nice not to... 🚴♀️🌞🥰 (Now back at my laptop and working hard 😅😁)
Cheeky nip out on the bike before breakfast... just divine 🚴♀️🌞🥰
April 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Cheeky nip out on the bike before breakfast... just divine 🚴♀️🌞🥰
All they need is a zebra crossing... #TheBleatles 😁
April 26, 2025 at 8:03 AM
All they need is a zebra crossing... #TheBleatles 😁
When you're in the thick of writing a book, plot pouring out, but... the sun is shining and your bike is calling 😅🚴♀️🌞😁
April 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
When you're in the thick of writing a book, plot pouring out, but... the sun is shining and your bike is calling 😅🚴♀️🌞😁
Just needs 'Savaged by a sheep' to make it a bit more Bruncliffe... 🤔😂
April 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Just needs 'Savaged by a sheep' to make it a bit more Bruncliffe... 🤔😂
Happy World Curlew Day!! One of my favourite birds 🥰 Celebrating with an image of Curlews and Cotton Grass - a stunning print from fellow Daleswoman, the amazingly talented @hestercoxprint.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Happy World Curlew Day!! One of my favourite birds 🥰 Celebrating with an image of Curlews and Cotton Grass - a stunning print from fellow Daleswoman, the amazingly talented @hestercoxprint.bsky.social
😳🙈😅 Front cover of the @yorkshirepost.co.uk magazine!! Not sure what Ida would make of it - or the fact I was out without a coat 🤣 (Full disclosure - it was mid-March and I was freezing 😂)
April 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
😳🙈😅 Front cover of the @yorkshirepost.co.uk magazine!! Not sure what Ida would make of it - or the fact I was out without a coat 🤣 (Full disclosure - it was mid-March and I was freezing 😂)
End of day head-clearer walk yesterday - although I'm at that point in the new book where my head is just full of plot, so I was mostly contemplating murder... 🤷♀️🙈🤣
April 18, 2025 at 7:34 AM
End of day head-clearer walk yesterday - although I'm at that point in the new book where my head is just full of plot, so I was mostly contemplating murder... 🤷♀️🙈🤣
😲 Well that's sent me reeling like ill-pegged washing in a Dales storm! The fab UK libraries and their users have only gone and nominated me for the CWA Dagger in the Library!!!! Thanks a million! I'm off to lie down with a cup of Ida tea while keeping everything crossed for the shortlist! 🥰
April 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
😲 Well that's sent me reeling like ill-pegged washing in a Dales storm! The fab UK libraries and their users have only gone and nominated me for the CWA Dagger in the Library!!!! Thanks a million! I'm off to lie down with a cup of Ida tea while keeping everything crossed for the shortlist! 🥰
And they are the ones who pay their taxes... couldn't agree with @ronanhession.bsky.social more 😊 #IndieBookshopsRock
Please support your local bookshop. They're the ones who support writers and writing. As a writer on a small-but-mighty independent press, the word-of-mouth goodwill at local bookshops has made my writing career possible.
How Irish booksellers feel about the arrival of Amazon.ie: ‘It’s a very real danger to the industry’. Bookshops offer something that an exclusively online retailer cannot, but they may need support to compete against a corporate giant, writes Tim Groenland
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
April 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
And they are the ones who pay their taxes... couldn't agree with @ronanhession.bsky.social more 😊 #IndieBookshopsRock
Brilliant book!! Reckon Ida Capstick would get a lot out of reading it 😁 Happy Book Birthday, @robdrummond.bsky.social!!
Officially out today! The paperback edition of 'You're All Talk: Why we are what we speak'. Available in all the usual places.
scribepublications.co.uk/books-author...
With some kind words from @susiedent.com, @simonmayo.bsky.social, David Crystal, Chris Mason, Ian McMillan, and Gyles Brandreth😁
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With some kind words from @susiedent.com, @simonmayo.bsky.social, David Crystal, Chris Mason, Ian McMillan, and Gyles Brandreth😁
April 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Brilliant book!! Reckon Ida Capstick would get a lot out of reading it 😁 Happy Book Birthday, @robdrummond.bsky.social!!