Author to direct his online tale

Best-selling author Zhang Jiajia will direct a movie based on his novelette, The Ferryman, it was announced at a news conference in Beijing on Sunday.

The 35-year-old follows in the footsteps of two other young best-selling authors, Han Han and Guo Jingming, who made their directorial debuts last year.

The Ferryman is one of 33 novelettes Zhang has posted on his microblog since July 2013. The series, called Bedtime Stories, was retweeted over 1.5 million times and got about 400 million clicks.