Julia Chapman
@juliachapman.bsky.social
Writer with permanent wanderlust. Author of the Dales Detective Series, the Two-Tone Detectives Series, and of the Fogas Chronicles (as Julia Stagg). Love cycling. Fell running. And the Dales.
Current read for research and loving it!! @davehaslam.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Current read for research and loving it!! @davehaslam.bsky.social
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 🏃♀️🐑🥰