diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1d4487e..78fc960 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,8 +20,12 @@
 
 # Get the long description from the README file
 # with open(os.path.join(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
-with open(os.path.join(here, 'README.md')) as f:
-    long_description = f.read()
+try:
+    import pypandoc
+    long_description =  pypandoc.convert(os.path.join(here, 'README.md'), 'rst')
+except:
+    with open(os.path.join(here, 'README.md')) as f:
+        long_description = f.read()
 
 about = {}
 with open(os.path.join(here, "spectrum_overload", "__about__.py")) as f:
diff --git a/spectrum_overload/__about__.py b/spectrum_overload/__about__.py
index 3bec195..626a1d9 100644
--- a/spectrum_overload/__about__.py
+++ b/spectrum_overload/__about__.py
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 #    MAJOR version when they make incompatible API changes,
 #    MINOR version when they add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
 #    MAINTENANCE version when they make backwards-compatible bug fixes.
-__version__ = "0.2.0"
+__version__ = "0.2.1"
 
 if base_dir is not None and os.path.exists(os.path.join(base_dir, ".commit")):
     with open(os.path.join(base_dir, ".commit")) as fp: