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.
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 😁
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!! 🌞🌞🌞
🥳 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 🌞😁🤣
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 😅🚴♀️🌞😁
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! 🥰
Post-London lung cleanser. Getting my balance back
#MorningRun 🌞🏃♀️🥰
#MorningRun 🌞🏃♀️🥰
April 9, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Post-London lung cleanser. Getting my balance back
#MorningRun 🌞🏃♀️🥰
#MorningRun 🌞🏃♀️🥰
Can't make it to London for the protest as I'm on a book tour promoting my latest - no doubt Meta will steal that at some point too as they have every single one of my fourteen novels, including the foreign editions!! I know what Ida Capstick would have to say about them!! #DoTheWriteThing
April 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Can't make it to London for the protest as I'm on a book tour promoting my latest - no doubt Meta will steal that at some point too as they have every single one of my fourteen novels, including the foreign editions!! I know what Ida Capstick would have to say about them!! #DoTheWriteThing
Always cool to have a number one... 🥳😁🥰
March 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Always cool to have a number one... 🥳😁🥰
Special thanks to audiobook narrator Elizabeth Bower for coming dressed as Tolpuddle 😂 And to Sarah Lister for an amazing job as interviewer. Not forgetting bookshop owner/farmer-for-the-night Tanya from Limestone Books. And Settle Victoria Hall for the stunning venue 🥰
March 31, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Special thanks to audiobook narrator Elizabeth Bower for coming dressed as Tolpuddle 😂 And to Sarah Lister for an amazing job as interviewer. Not forgetting bookshop owner/farmer-for-the-night Tanya from Limestone Books. And Settle Victoria Hall for the stunning venue 🥰
You know your book has been well and truly launched when you're dressed as a pink sheep and end up on stage singing with the band... cracking night! #DateWithDestiny 🐑🤣🥰
March 31, 2025 at 7:35 AM
You know your book has been well and truly launched when you're dressed as a pink sheep and end up on stage singing with the band... cracking night! #DateWithDestiny 🐑🤣🥰
Morning run. With added lambs 🏃♀️🐑🥰
March 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Morning run. With added lambs 🏃♀️🐑🥰
Treated myself to a morning on the bike and got back to the @alcs.co.uk distribution... Cherry on the cake 😁 Thanks ALCS team!
March 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Treated myself to a morning on the bike and got back to the @alcs.co.uk distribution... Cherry on the cake 😁 Thanks ALCS team!