I did that by making a menu item with an 'external URL' with the following address:

http://yourdomain.com/index.php/component/easyarticles/composer

Thanks for kind of compliment Geoff

We will plan to add this menu item in next release version.

By the way, thanks for sharing Alexius

In addition with this option it would be nice to be able to set the default post category and decide if they can only save to that category or not.

An alternative to this may be to just follow the settings under the front-end menu type: Create New Article
There you can already restrict the user to default to posting to one category and only be able to post to that category. Obviously this would only work if EasyArticle was your default editor.

Thanks!:

Thanks for your input on this Jemmyn By the way, is it possible to start a new thread for your feature request, because this initial one was already added internally.

Cool thanks for the tip. I was just not sure if this was part of the feature they were already asking for or if it would be considered separate. Its related but its also different.

You're welcome Jemmyn

It would be best if you can start a new thread for your feature request