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I've been freelance editing for four years and I do either concept edit or a concept/copy edit. I don't necessarily believe you have to copyedit after the concept edit, but it depends on the writers' own craft level and the number of eyeballs that latch on. Some people are skilled at one or the other, some at both. I've done both quite a bit, as a writer, journalist, and editor, and I'm comfortable doing it.
I do know that if you read the same sentences, you will tend to overlook your own mistakes. That's how published books can get through with mistakes in them. I just cracked open my novel The Manor, printed in 2004, and for the first time ever noticed that the character name in the "opening quote" is wrong. I'd changed the name in the draft but somehow that was in with the preface material and never got changed.
Scott Nicholson
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