Afternoon links.

• Excerpt: The Guardian has posted a selection from Sally Gardner's Costa-winning Maggot Moon on their website. See this article for more about the other winners.
• More on the Greenville County Library and Alan Moore's Neonomicon: "Her decision to pull the book was the first time she had overruled her staff’s recommendation and the fifth time she had removed material from the library after a complaint."
• At the Daily Mail: The 'sick-lit' books aimed at children: It's a disturbing phenomenon. Tales of teenage cancer, self-harm and suicide... CAN YOU SAY CLICKBAIT? AND ALSO, ZOMG, THAT IS LIKE SO 2011!
• I took a break from making pendants in December, but today's find has re-inspired me to get moving again: I FOUND STAMPS WITH NICOLAS CAGE AND SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR ON THEM. (<--Separate stamps. Together would have been weird.) And of course, like everyone else on the planet, I'm excited about the Doctor Who stamps that the Royal Mail is releasing in March.
• The SLJ blogs on that whole New Adult thing: Angela Carstensen and Liz Burns (times three!) both weigh in.
• Also at SLJ, the saddest roundup of the year: In Memorium 2012.
• Elizabeth Wein on what makes her books YA books: "In a true YA novel, the main characters will be changed forever by the end of the book.  This isn’t necessarily true of ‘adult’ fiction.  To my mind, the change ought to be for the better in teen fiction—even in fiction where the ending is bleak, the protagonist should have had the opportunity to grow somewhere along the way."
• The Book Smugglers Air Their 2012 Grievances with Much Mirthful Gnashing Of Teeth. Ahahahaha. Oh, 2012. You big lug.