@susannah I love short stories, so in that category on Small Beer, Maureen McHugh is one of my favorite writers, and I also really like Kelly Link's stories. Alan DeNiro's Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead was good too. And I got into Small Beer through their journal Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.

On the novel front, I liked Sean Stewart's Mockingbird and am working my way through Sofia Samatar's A Stranger in Olondria. http://smallbeerpress.com/books-by-author/

I haven't read Elemental Logic. Thanks!