Tween & Teen Modeling: The Real Business Guide

Your teenager wants to model. Before they sign with an agency, accept a booking, or agree to a photo shoot, they need to 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 career they learn to navigate themselves. Agencies start evaluating maturity, reliability, and the ability to take direction. Contracts carry more weight. Social media becomes part of a young model’s professional reputation. And decisions made at fourteen or sixteen can shape opportunities years later.

Signed. Booked. Paid. Vol. 2 lays out how the business actually works, what young models should expect, and how parents can protect their interests without taking over their careers.

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

What This Book Gives You

• Agencies & representation: approaching legitimate agencies, mother agents and secondary markets, evaluating offers, and exclusive vs. non-exclusive agreements

• Contracts & red flags: commissions, chargebacks, exclusivity, termination provisions, and obligations that can follow a young model beyond a single booking

• Digitals & submissions: accurate, natural photos and professional agency submissions, without unnecessary spending

• Castings & conduct: auditions, taking direction, communicating with industry professionals, and building the reputation that gets you booked again

• Money & usage rights: day rates, commissions, usage licensing, residuals, perpetual buyouts, and SAG-AFTRA, and what each one means for what a model earns and what rights they give away

• Safety & digital boundaries: spotting suspicious scouting approaches, protecting personal information, boundaries on set, and a social media presence that supports future opportunities

Companion Workbook Included

Checklists, guided exercises, and tracking tools to prepare for agency meetings, document representation, organize submissions and bookings, and monitor earnings and usage agreements. Plus a full glossary of industry terms.

Whether your teen is exploring modeling for the first time, moving up from child modeling, or already booking professional work, this is the knowledge to ask better questions and make informed decisions.

Getting signed is only the beginning.

Get signed. Get booked. Get paid.