Child Modeling: The Real Business Guide

Someone just told you your child “has the look.” What happens next decides whether this becomes a real opportunity or an expensive lesson.

Child modeling runs on contracts, commissions, usage rights, and payment terms most families have never seen. The first offers can come with a price tag: photo packages, classes, conventions, databases. The first contract can ask for more than it should.

Signed. Booked. Paid. Vol. 1 lays out the business side of child modeling step by step, before you sign anything.

Written by Lonna Drewes, a former international model, agency owner, photo production company owner, and mother of working child talent.

What This Book Gives You

• The money test: one question that separates a legitimate agency from a business selling services to families

• Agencies & contracts: submissions, representation, commissions, exclusivity, direct bookings, and exit clauses, and what each one means for your child

• Money & rights: how jobs pay, how Coogan and trust accounts work, how vouchers work, and which usage rights you’re actually granting

• Digitals: agency-ready photos taken at home, and what never to submit

• Sizing & samples: measurements, growth spurts, and why current sizing gets children booked

• Castings & bookings: what clients are evaluating, and how to prepare your child to walk in confident

Companion Workbook Included

Every submission, casting, booking, payment, expense, measurement, and contact, tracked in one place from day one.

Your child walks in knowing that a casting decision comes down to size, fit, timing, and what the client needs. You walk in knowing what to ask, what to watch for, and when to walk away.

Get signed. Get booked. Get paid.