St. Martin’s Press has hired Brenda Copeland as an executive editor. Copeland will start November 29. For the past five years, Copeland was executive editor at Hyperion; prior to that she was an editor at Pocket Books and Atria. Among the books she has edited are Skinny Italian, Making Rounds With Oscar, and The Late Bloomer’s Revolution. Copeland serves as an adjunct faculty at NYU’s Center for Publishing.