We've finally heard from the plagiarist (remember those links I posted earlier this week?). And...what she says sounds like a whole load of bollocks.
"made mistakes" "appears that I may have" "not offering that as an excuse" "do not judge me too harshly"
Plagiarism isn't a "mistake" when it's a scene-by-scene light-rewrite for more than one book - it's DELIBERATE. She makes an excuse, then quickly says it's not an excuse.
So yeah. Bollocks.