The Real Business Guide to Tween & Teen Modeling (Signed Booked Paid)

Your teenager wants to model. Before they sign with an agency, accept a booking, or agree to a photo shoot, make sure they understand the business they're entering.

The tween and teen years change everything. Modeling stops being something that happens around a child and becomes a professional opportunity they must learn to navigate themselves.

Agencies begin looking beyond appearance. They evaluate maturity, reliability, professionalism, and the ability to take direction. Contracts become more consequential. Social media becomes part of a young model's professional reputation. And decisions made at fourteen or sixteen can affect opportunities years later.

This is where ambition needs preparation.

Signed. Booked. Paid. Vol. 2: The Real Business Guide to Tween & Teen Modeling explains how the modeling industry actually works, what young models should expect, and how parents can help protect their interests without taking over their careers.

Written by Lonna Drewes , an international model, former modeling agency owner, photo production company owner, and mother of working talent, this book brings decades of firsthand industry experience to one of modeling's most important transitions.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN

• Agencies & Representation: How to approach legitimate agencies, understand mother agents and secondary markets, evaluate representation offers, and distinguish exclusive from non-exclusive agreements.

• Contracts & Red Flags: What to look for before signing, including commissions, chargebacks, exclusivity, termination provisions, and obligations that can follow a young model beyond a single booking.

• Digitals & Professional Submissions: How to create accurate, natural photographs, prepare agency submissions, and present yourself professionally without unnecessary spending.

• Castings & Professional Conduct: How to handle auditions, follow direction, communicate with industry professionals, and build the reputation that leads to repeat opportunities.

• Money & Usage Rights: How day rates, commissions, usage licensing, residuals, perpetual buyouts, and SAG-AFTRA arrangements can affect what a model earns—and what rights they give away.

• Safety & Digital Boundaries: How to recognize suspicious scouting approaches, protect personal information, establish boundaries on set, and manage a social media presence that supports rather than damages future opportunities.

MORE THAN A GUIDEBOOK — A PRACTICAL CAREER RESOURCE

The book also includes a companion workbook with guided exercises, checklists, reflection prompts, and tracking tools to help tweens, teens, and parents put what they learn into practice.

Use it to prepare for agency meetings, document representation details, organize submissions and bookings, monitor earnings and usage agreements, and establish professional goals.

A comprehensive glossary of modeling-industry terminology helps readers understand the language of contracts, castings, clients, commissions, and bookings.

FOR YOUNG MODELS AND THE PARENTS GUIDING THEM

Whether you're exploring modeling for the first time, preparing to meet an agency, transitioning from child modeling, or already accepting professional bookings, this book gives you the knowledge to ask better questions and make more informed decisions.

Because getting signed is only the beginning.

Understand the business. Protect your future. Build your career.

Get signed. Get booked. Get paid.