Debbie's Spurts
— feeling sick

Oh please, using the excuse you had "personal and professional issues" for your thieving plagiarism is the weakest excuse. Every time an author plagiarizes another author like Janet Dailey did to Nora Roberts, it puts a stain on publishing as a whole.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/28/prolific-romantic-fiction-writer-exposed-as-a-plagiarist?CMP=share_btn_tw