Blog App: Post Types in Custom Menu?

I have created a custom post type in Perch for blog posts. We are wanting to improve the ease of use for creating a post type against a blog post. Is there any way we could jump straight into creating a blog post with a post type instead of having to save the blog post first and defining the post type using it's drop down?

One scenario we thought of was creating a custom menu item in the Admin area. Would that be possible?