diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8a0849d..d744d6a 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: ftExtra
 Title: Extensions for 'Flextable'
-Version: 0.3.0
+Version: 0.3.0.9999
 Date: 2022-01-04
 Authors@R: 
   c(person(given = "Atsushi",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 709ada0..cc73575 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# ftExtra 0.3.0.9999
+
+* `as_paragraph_md` supports empty string, `""`, as an input (#68).
+
 # ftExtra 0.3.0
 
 ## New features
diff --git a/R/as-paragraph-md.R b/R/as-paragraph-md.R
index 1a9f6cc..49bdbb3 100644
--- a/R/as-paragraph-md.R
+++ b/R/as-paragraph-md.R
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ organize <- function(md_df,
 
 construct_chunk <- function(x, auto_color_link = "blue") {
   flextable::chunk_dataframe(
-    txt = x$txt,
+    txt = x$txt %||% "", # x can be empty list when input is empty string
     italic = x$Emph %||% NA,
     bold = x$Strong %||% NA,
     url = x$Link %||% NA_character_,
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ as_paragraph_md <- function(x,
       organize(md_df, auto_color_link, .footnote_options)
     } else {
       lapply(x, function(x) {
+        if (x == "") return(construct_chunk(list()))
         y <- x %>%
           md2df(pandoc_args = pandoc_args, .from = .from, .check = TRUE) %>%
           solve_footnote(.footnote_options, auto_color_link) %>%