Aha! Well then...
Tamora Pierce, for sure. You've already seen a taste of the Circle universe (Stormy's canon) in Effulgence; I'm personally more a fan of Tortall, which has... 5 series (trilogies or quartets), I think, set in it, all of which I enjoyed. My copy of Woman Who Rides Like A Man (protagonist kind of turns a tribe of sexist desert-dwellers on their ears) is dog-eared to the point that it's barely holding together anymore. Fairly standard fantasy/medieval setting, but well constructed and with excellent characters.
Kate Forsyth, Witches of Eileanan series especially (although apparently she's got more series than I've read yet). Celtic world, with magic and mythical creatures and so on.
Elizabeth Moon, Deed of Paksenarrion. Classic fantasy setting, but told from the perspective of a woman who starts out a soldier in a mercenary company.
Jane Lindskold, Firekeeper saga (first book Through Wolf's Eyes). Girl raised by better-than-your-average-wolves, becomes a major player in human society due to who her parents were.
Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials, if you somehow haven't read it yet. Canon for Amariah in Effulgence, but set a few hundred years earlier.
Some of the better parts of Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern, (I liked Moreta, and the Harper Hall trilogy, though to understand the latter it helps to have read some of the earlier books) though I'd still tend to rate those lower than most things on this list.
I'm going to assume you've already read Alicorn's fiction...
Given the size of most of those series, that'll keep you occupied for a while. I'll come back when I'm more awake, with other suggestions. I know I'm forgetting a bunch, but brain needs sleepingtime.
Oh, back to spaceships but a webcomic rather than a proper book: you might enjoy