diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index db2ab77..5cb4b3b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# twitter\_ebooks 2.2.8
+# twitter\_ebooks 2.2.9
 
 Rewrite of my twitter\_ebooks code. While the original was solely a tweeting Markov generator, this framework helps you build any kind of interactive twitterbot which responds to mentions/DMs. See [ebooks\_example](https://github.com/mispy/ebooks_example) for an example of a full bot.
 
diff --git a/lib/twitter_ebooks/version.rb b/lib/twitter_ebooks/version.rb
index 7e2d1c1..2264574 100644
--- a/lib/twitter_ebooks/version.rb
+++ b/lib/twitter_ebooks/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Ebooks
-  VERSION = "2.2.8"
+  VERSION = "2.2.9"
 end